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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

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217 points mfiguiere | 6 comments | 14 Oct 24 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.441s | source | bottom
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quantified ◴[14 Oct 24 21:47 UTC] No.41842362[source]▶
Surprising absolutely no one, I hope. Credibility seems difficult to generate for Tesla events. Maybe the secret sauce for Robotaxis is a human driver somewhere watching the cameras. Like driving Uber but from the comfort of home, and it's easy to hit the fridge or bathroom between rides.
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1. mandevil ◴[14 Oct 24 22:32 UTC] No.41842852[source]▶
I mean, you definitely need people available to intervene even for a L4 or L5 autonomy, because they will get stuck (Tesla is not serious about robotaxis until they start staffing up a team to do that on a full-time basis). But actual driving? This link is way too high latency for that to be safe. The robot needs to be maintaining its own SA, and just calling the human when it doesn't know what to do.
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2. stackghost ◴[15 Oct 24 00:12 UTC] No.41843617[source]▶
It's amazing to me just how far people will move the goalposts for Elon's perpetual grift.

We've gone from "you'll be able to nap on your morning commute in your self driving car within 18 months" to "they will always need a human to intervene".

Incredible

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3. dullcrisp ◴[15 Oct 24 00:18 UTC] No.41843650[source]▶
I don’t think the person you’re replying to said anything about Elon Musk in this case
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4. stackghost ◴[15 Oct 24 00:50 UTC] No.41843810{3}[source]▶
Not directly, but he and Tesla are unfortunately inextricably linked.
5. pclmulqdq ◴[15 Oct 24 01:21 UTC] No.41843991[source]▶
Elon Musk has displayed incredible prowess at manipulating modern internet media. He launched "tesla shorts" right when a few big short sellers announced their positions (I believe one of them also put out a report about TSLA being insolvent aside from income from pre-orders, and was proven correct by Musk years later) and SEO-ed them into the ground.

I would assume that several of the pro-elon accounts on most social media are actually either bots or shills. You don't need many shills to get real people interested.

6. mandevil ◴[15 Oct 24 01:34 UTC] No.41844060[source]▶
Errr, I am saying that Elon's claims are obviously BS until we start to see Tesla doing something like what Waymo has had for years(1): a team of people ready to intervene and fix things that are outside the training set of the ML.

I happen to know a senior person at a autonomous delivery robot company, which employs a team of people for just this purpose, because even delivering pizzas around a college town in a small little robot needs this. For things like (actual example for them) a sofa that was being thrown away and was just left on the sidewalk, and so a human needed to confirm that it was safe to move around it. And so far as I'm aware, Tesla isn't doing this, which is why I think that their autonomous taxi idea is nonsense.

1: Personal experience from being driven in a Waymo, I hit the assist button when we got stuck by some double parked cars in a parking lot. By the time someone answered the car had already extricated itself, but it didn't start that until after I hit the button.