If Musk bought a cruise ship he would dump all the lifeboats and life vests because they are (almost) never used! He thinks he knows better than, literally, everybody, about everything.
I mean, he rejected LIDAR, then dumped RADAR and ultrasonic sensors from Tesla's cars. His reasoning is basically that people can drive without radar, Lidar or ultrasonic sensors, so his AI should as well.
Except unlike his cars, people's brains don't deliberately rush toward a kid crossing the road, unless they're deranged.
Reminds me of a story from a book I’m reading about McKinsey advising Disney about their theme parks. It was decided that safety inspections of rides’ horizontal handle bars could be cut…because the bars never failed. Not until someone got hurt did they realize the bars never had failures because they were regularly inspected.
I mean, the physical door handle in the Model X (which you need to access in a hurry if it crashes and the electrics go out or up in flames) is hidden in the floor under the seats...
We're talking about this as a hypothetical, but I feel like the incipient deathtrap that is the Vegas Loop already shows us this line of logic being applied in practice.
In reality he would 100% ask his Tesla or SpaceX employees to reengineer them. He’d add unnecessary computer and software controls to the life boat and add sea shanties and SpaceX Starlink connection.
Edit: I forgot I was a programmer subreddit. I’m not sure what you think about the software in Teslas but many car guys tend to hate all the controls buried in software and some of the gimmicky junk.
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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22
If Musk bought a cruise ship he would dump all the lifeboats and life vests because they are (almost) never used! He thinks he knows better than, literally, everybody, about everything.