Re: Postal Service
They government agency also has to make sure that the right people get the plates - and currently they don't. So if their chosen delivery method does not work, the government agency has to use different means.
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"When it comes to vehicles with driver assist technology, Tesla is the leader in fatal accidents by far, accounting for more than 70 percent of the automated driver assist technology accidents logged by the NHTSA."
Do you really mean that? There's so much wrong with it two sentences that I don't really know where to start.
1) Driver assist technology --> The car "supports" or rather "assists" the driver. The driver is still in control and has the responsibility. So the car can't be blamed when the driver does not pay attention.
2) Tesla is the only car manufacturer that knows when and for how long its systems were activated. Hence Tesla is the only one that can provide information as to whether assist technology was run when the accident happened or shortly prior to. Since other manufacturers don't konw, they can't report any of this to NHTSA. But the framing done here is obvious.
One would think so there is more behind it. I couldn't find an article that lists all the prerquisites but here's one that lists a few of them:
https://www.next-mobility.de/drive-pilot-von-mercedes-paradigmenwechsel-wie-die-mondlandung-a-1104283/
"Nur auf Autobahnen und nur bis 60 km/h.
Es werden keine Spurwechsel getätigt, die Temperatur muss über vier Grad liegen, die Sicht muss gut sein. Also Tageslicht, keine Dämmerung, keine Tunnel, kein Regen oder Schneefall."
Translate:
"Only on the highway and only up to 60 km/h
No lange changes, temperature must be above 4°C, sight must be good. Also required is day light, no twilight, no tunnel, no rain or snow".
Some other lists also there must be a car in front of you, the lane marking must be clearly visible. It must not be on a construction area (because different lane markings are used then).... The real achievement of Mercedes is not the ability of their DrivePilot but getting the legal approval of it.
In Germany the Mercedes L3 is a traffic jam autopilot. Only during the day, on high resolution mapped streets, with a car in front of you that the Mercedes can follow, up to 40mph and only on the highway. It does not make sense for Tesla to go for L3 certification. They want L5 directly - and looking at the latest FSD Beta videos by Tesla drivers it's not that far off. But the last 5% are the hardest to achieve.
Just a few notes myself - I have beenusing Nixos for several years now.
(1) It's a pain to get it first running as you want it - but once you have it, it's very nice to work with it and redeploy it elsewhere
(2) Excellent ZFS support
(3) Software that isn't already packaged (available nix-expression) is a pain to package yourself.
I run Nixos on my main notebook and on several servers. On the servers and also my notebook I do have a setup similar to this blog post: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
My wife is Filipina and my inlaws live - as you might have guessed - in the Philippines. Since communication is very important (happy wife, happy life) I was pondering to get Starlink for them, as they only had crappy 4G (well, mostly 3G) internet that often had outages and cost only little less than monthly starlink. So after I discovered Starlink in 2019 I think, I did also apply for it in the Philippines. However in mid-2020 they finally got fiber connection. It's also costly but they share a 600/600mbit connection among 5 families. So it's affordable.
There's 1 million Teslas sold. How many "bucketloads of YouTube videos and EV forum posts with Tesla owners" are there? From how many different owners?
Also, plenty of drivers from other brands do stupid things: https://www.slashgear.com/mercedes-active-lane-assist-fooled-with-soda-can-02339580/
Please provide proof for that "significatn proportion of their customers" claim? Also, as Tesla stats show: Accidents happen far less often with activated AP than without.
Btw, every day, human drivers cause thousands of accidents and crashes. I'm sure you're also vigorously fighting that no humans are allowed to drive cars anymore, right?
When was the last time you boarded a plane? Didn't you wonder why there's a flight captain and co-captain? I mean the autopilot has been in planes for decades. Sure they don't need pilots anymore if you think it's autonomous.
So, why did you never wonder why there's still a captain and co-captain despite the plane having autopilot?
To my understanding, LEOs aren't much of a problem as non-functional satellites will come down to earth within a short period of time and vaporize themselves in the atmosphere. The higher up the satellites are, the longer it takes until earth's gravity puts them in again.