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[–] 302 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Guy whose cars run into stopped fire trucks thinks he’s an expert on computer vision.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Speaking of fire trucks has anyone here ever read the emergency response procedures for teslas in severe accidents? When I was a volunteer we gave it a look over.

    If I remember right, Depending on the model they recommend up to 8,000 gallons (~30k liters) to keep an overheating battery's temp stable in case of fire or exposure to high heat. I'll link the resource page here.

    Our engine holds 700 gallons (5.2k liters) and the typical tanker in our area holds 2,000 (7.5k liters)

    That's a house fire level response for a single electric vehicle. Just getting that much water moved to a scene would be challenging. We have tankers, but how many city departments can move that much water? You don't see hydrants on highways. And foam is not effective like it is for normal car fires. The future will be interesting for firefighters.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I found a link on how the Austrian fire workeres handle this. The fire is extinguished first, then the remainders of the car are put into a special roll-off container (Abrollbehälter, AB) and driven to a gravel pit, where the container will be flooded with 21000 litres of water.

    https://www.feuerwehrmagazin.de/nachrichten/news/elektroauto-in-flammen-einsatz-fuer-den-abrollbehaelter-e-brand-93315

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    It is especially important to understand that Tesla's struggles with navigation are entirely a result of Elon refusing to equip them with LiDAR. This isn't some "The tech is really new and really complicated and we're still figuring it out" problem. There is a very good solution to most collision avoidance scenarios, but Elon refuses to let them use it because he's an idiot.

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    [–] 172 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    For those doing the maths at home:

    An F35 who obligingly flies top-towards-you (not exactly something you can do, but hey, maybe they're turning) is all of 10m tall.

    An AIM-120C can very comfortably hit a target at 100km.

    At that range, the F-35 takes up 26 arcseconds, or 0.007 degrees. That's roughly about the size of this period, at a distance of 3 meters away.

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    Good luck spotting that in a sky of roughly the same colour, full of other objects.

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    [–] 153 points 2 years ago

    Sir, our air defence is down!

    Is it hackers?

    No sir, it's cloudy.

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  • [–] 147 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If a fighter jet is within visual range of a camera, it's already too late. And that's if there aren't any clouds.

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    [–] 95 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    His fucking obsession with computer vision. He’s so convinced he’s right he forgot that clouds exist… and his cars plow straight into obstacles.

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    [+] 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That fucker really thinks he's so smart when all he does is constantly demonstrate what an idiot he is.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago

    Elon Musk is an idiot

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Says the guy that produces AND designed the cyber truck

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "It a shit design" is rich coming from the guy whos company can't get panels to line up on a car.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Also... Fighters are fast, the point is you should fire the missile before you see it.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Looks like being rich and surrounding yourself with yes-people is the #1 cause of sitting confidently at the top of the Dunning-Krueger curve.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Can't these things aerosolize you from beyond the fucking horizon? How helpful are those AI powered low light cameras when they're phase transitioned by a missile launched from a hundred miles away?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    You'd need a camera network spanning the entire battlefield. And it'd need telephoto lenses at the very least, because stealth fighters are high and small. And it'd need to stay connected after an initial missile exchange.

    I don't buy for a moment that nobody in the Pentagon has thought of this, and explained why it's not a dealbreaker in a classified report.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "laughably easy to take down fighter jets"

    yeah all you have to do is ban the kid running the elon jet twitter. Seems easy enough to me.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Let me guess, he's got an alternative to sell?

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    "Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over this land. My company are those loyal to Rohan. And for that, we are banished." - Èomer, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Jesus christ ... this dude is a fucking moron... if it WAS easy defense companies would be doing it already... and guess what, they aren't. Between this dickhead and Captain Brainworm the next four years are gonna SUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    He's just a dumb attention seeker. Of course he's gonna shit on the most over-engineered thing in existence. Tho the context of the shitty engineering his companies do makes this even funnier. What a loser.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS, ELON.

    IN A CAVE YOU FUCKING INBRED. A CAVE!!!

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    MUH AY-EI

    Did he replace his brain with AI already? Because it sure fucking looks like it.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Dude’s brain is shit design and fucking sucks, actually

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago*

    Just use multiple nuclear power plants to power an AI that constantly scans the sky.

    Are we sure he's not an NCD poster?

    Edit to add - Musk unlocked the achievement, personal enemy of the DoD and entire defense industry. I'm getting popcorn for this.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    He isn't smart. He's just a narcissist that lives deep in the warm embrace of Dunning-Kuger

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Mr richest man on earth with tesla and space x doesn't even have an electric private jet

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    What a fucking loser

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    In the long term maybe he has a point. In the short term the other guys are often using a radar built in 1985 and displaying to a ray tube.

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