In summary this is a man who at 16 realised his life dream was to “back up” the human race (like a hard drive!) by populating Mars. That’s why he created SpaceX who supply most of the space ships to NASA these days. Amazing guy!
FWIW I see the “star like” attraction of Tesla as analogous to Apple & I have been predicting their demise for a decade ….. how do they convince all those peops to pay twice as much for a technology that is available by others? Marketing and image I guess?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he is getting bored with cars about now; check one of his latest hobbies here:
@Jako64 your discussion re changing lanes and pedestrian Xing road. The ability of pedestrians illegally Xing is a huge one and something I had not thought of. Mmm tough one that!
2 giant related challenges for the introduction of DC are:
-The cars will have to be programmed to make decisions over “who dies” in certain circumstances. Eg if a person (child!) runs in fron of a DC and the options are to run over the child OR cause a crash where the likelihood that MORE than one person dies what does it do? How will the law handle this?
-the “real” benefits of DC only happen when we “get the monkeys off the road” eg require to legislate to move to a fully autonomous world. Difficult indeed. FWIW I have pondered this and I reckon some forward thinking city will be an early adopter, the benfits will become evident and the snowball effect will go around the globe.
@gypaetus dashcam = genious (and obvious now you mention it; in fact the true DC will be a computer so it any indescretions could easily be shared to "Big Brother").
PS1 In my day job I have proposed to decision makers that when freeway traffic reaches a certain level we should make it illegal to change lanes (see the vid I posted showing impact of monkeys changing lanes!). Reason against my proposal “How could we police it” … BORING! Dashcam = nice!
PS2 "They" also won’t adopt my other device which is a “GJ car disenabler” whereby I, yes only me, get a button that I push when I see an idiot doing something on the roads that instantly gives a message to the driver “Your car is about to be disenabled; pull over when it is safe to do so” … a second button allows me to choose the term of the disenablement between 24 hours to life!! I entertain myself (and the family) with this game on long drives!
@ webbj @gypaetus @ Klue @Pisces@chickendinner@Vitor all thoughtful and excellent inputs; TFT.
Blown away by the response actually! Keep the thoughts coming.
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