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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

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217 points mfiguiere | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.359s | source
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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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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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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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1. 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.