The only thing the tesla is fastest at is bursting into flames.
The two production cars faster than the P100D are:
- Ferrari Laferrari, of which 499 have been made. A quick Google search reveals at least two have caught fire, and a recall was issued by Ferrarri because of the fire risk. - Porsche 918 Spyder, of which 918 have been made. A quick Google search reveals at least one burned down at a gas station in Canada.
Compare that to the almost 150,000 Teslas on the road today (100 times as many). Looks like "fastest car to catch fire" is no contest here.
The biggest problem is that it leaks out of the airship (right through the hull). It will have to be topped up rather regularly. And quite possibly other gases will find their way in, creating the need for purifying the He on a regular basis.
Why worry about 99.995%? Even at 99%, lift is only 1% less. Make the balloon 1% bigger and go with the cheap stuff to fill it. Or am I missing something?
Airbus does have sidesticks that work just like a control column. And we can't program the autopilot to do an entire flight including landing. Autoland requires quite a bit of manual actions (engaging approach mode when close to the airport, selecting flaps and landing gear,...) and we are trained to always be ready to take over when the system malfunctions.
The "common meaning" of the word is exactly what I described. Maybe Tesla should educate people more about what the word means (and not make hands-free demos during test drives and in youTube videos), but "most people don't understand the word, therefore you are wrong when you use the word in its correct meaning" is hardly a valid argument. The word means what it means.
That's exactly why they changed the translation. Apparently, the Chinese translation for autopilot also literally means "self driving", and they felt that was pushing their legal luck a little bit too much.
The term "autopilot" itself is pretty well-defined in aviation and boating, to mean an often very stupid automatic steering device that needs constant monitoring, especially during critical phases like landing. An automatic airplane landing is actually more work and stress than a manual one and requires specific training to deal with all the possible failures.
I know lots of people get confused about the term, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. Hey, "automobile" means "moves by itself" so should I sue every automobile manufacturer because their cars need people to set them in motion?
The function of the Tesla autopilot is exactly like that of autopilots in boats and airplanes, they couldn't have chosen a more accurate term.
Actually they started out with this shark bomber project, but it was considered too wasteful to train sharks and then blow them up on their first and only mission. So they started thinking "what if we could attach some other device to the sharks, maybe something like a really strong beam of light that can burn through hulls" and that lead to the invention of the laser shortly afterwards. So next time you see Jaws on DVD or blueray, remember you have sharks to thank for that.
Wasn't there some new law equating website ToS violations to hacking with penalties of 800 years in prison, regardless of whether you ever agreed to them or not? Probably tucked into a law about lead content in diapers?
Yeah, just like when the cost of a car tripled when they introduced power steering, power brakes, electric windows, cruise control, anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control,...
Yep, they even axed the 17 inch screen because only power users need it, and that's not their target demographic.
Well, my 2010 17 inch is still going strong after replacing the HDD with an Samsung SSD. I probably would have bought two new 17 inch laptops in the mean time, but now I'm just stretching this one as long as I can.
Turkish Airlines 1951, Amsterdam 25 february 2009.
Automatic approach, radio altimeter failure let the autopilot think it was just above the runway while it was in fact still at 2000 ft above the ground. Autopilot commanded throttles to idle, airspeed dropped to stall speed, plane crashed.
The verdict: pilot error. They should have reacted to the dropping airspeed by taking control, pushing the throttles forward and initiating a go-around.
There are plenty of other examples where autopilots have flown aircraft into mountains or done other stupid things yet the pilots took the blame (rightfully so) because they should have seen what was happening and taken over.
We don't actually have our hands at the controls during most of the flight because with sufficient altitude there's rarely a situation where you have to immediately take over in a fraction of a second. The air is pretty empty. At low altitudes, however, even when the autopilot is on, we are required to be ready to take over at any time.
Elon is against lidar because it can't see through fog. They are working on updating the radar so that, instead of a single distance value, it can use multiple measurements in different directions to create a point cloud, much like the lidar systems that Google is using but using radar instead of light. Rumor has it that this might even be possible with the current hardware, only requiring a software update. I must say I have some doubts there.
There have also been rumors about stereoscopic cameras in Tesla mules. IMHO they should install a camera on the far left of the windscreen and another one on the far right, creating maximum stereoscopic depth for the AI to work with. Right now, Tesla only uses a single camera in the middle which they claim is almost as good as a stereoscopic one. Apparently not quite good enough, though.
An autopilot landing is actually more work and is more stressful than a normal, manual landing. There's a checklist of things to verify before you can even start the approach, and we have to be extremely attentive to any errors the autopilot could make. We regularly practice these approaches in the simulator: ground equipment failures, autopilot failures, instrument failures, engine failures, you name it. Some of these are quite subtle, like the one that crashed a Turkish Airlines flight in Amsterdam in 2009. The radio altimeter malfunctioned, so the autopilot thought it was close to the ground and pulled the throttles back to idle. In reality, the plane was still 500 ft above the ground and stalled.
Interestingly, the accident was classified as "pilot error" because the pilots should have intervened when the speed dropped below approach speed.
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On the other hand, to be fair, a light year is also based an an arbitrary amount of time.
Why use parsecs if you can call it 4.2 light years, making the calculation of the travel time a lot simpler?
The only thing the tesla is fastest at is bursting into flames.
The two production cars faster than the P100D are:
- Ferrari Laferrari, of which 499 have been made. A quick Google search reveals at least two have caught fire, and a recall was issued by Ferrarri because of the fire risk.
- Porsche 918 Spyder, of which 918 have been made. A quick Google search reveals at least one burned down at a gas station in Canada.
Compare that to the almost 150,000 Teslas on the road today (100 times as many). Looks like "fastest car to catch fire" is no contest here.
You need a pretty hard impact for the airbags to deploy.
Also, they were only told their sex after the experiment
The biggest problem is that it leaks out of the airship (right through the hull). It will have to be topped up rather regularly. And quite possibly other gases will find their way in, creating the need for purifying the He on a regular basis.
Why worry about 99.995%? Even at 99%, lift is only 1% less. Make the balloon 1% bigger and go with the cheap stuff to fill it. Or am I missing something?
Airbus does have sidesticks that work just like a control column. And we can't program the autopilot to do an entire flight including landing. Autoland requires quite a bit of manual actions (engaging approach mode when close to the airport, selecting flaps and landing gear,...) and we are trained to always be ready to take over when the system malfunctions.
Here's one.
What about the fatal crash in Southern California last monday morning?
See, autocorrect needs monitoring too. Go sue whoever made your autocorrect software.
During an automatic landing, we do have our hands on the controls. Cruise flight, with lots of empty air around us, is obviously a lot less critical.
The "common meaning" of the word is exactly what I described. Maybe Tesla should educate people more about what the word means (and not make hands-free demos during test drives and in youTube videos), but "most people don't understand the word, therefore you are wrong when you use the word in its correct meaning" is hardly a valid argument. The word means what it means.
That's exactly why they changed the translation. Apparently, the Chinese translation for autopilot also literally means "self driving", and they felt that was pushing their legal luck a little bit too much.
The term "autopilot" itself is pretty well-defined in aviation and boating, to mean an often very stupid automatic steering device that needs constant monitoring, especially during critical phases like landing. An automatic airplane landing is actually more work and stress than a manual one and requires specific training to deal with all the possible failures.
I know lots of people get confused about the term, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. Hey, "automobile" means "moves by itself" so should I sue every automobile manufacturer because their cars need people to set them in motion?
The function of the Tesla autopilot is exactly like that of autopilots in boats and airplanes, they couldn't have chosen a more accurate term.
this is akin to drone assassinations carried out by some guy sitting in complete safety in a room with air condition while sipping a drink.
Yeah, those hackers sitting in their mother's basement killing drones from a distance... inexcusable.
Actually they started out with this shark bomber project, but it was considered too wasteful to train sharks and then blow them up on their first and only mission. So they started thinking "what if we could attach some other device to the sharks, maybe something like a really strong beam of light that can burn through hulls" and that lead to the invention of the laser shortly afterwards. So next time you see Jaws on DVD or blueray, remember you have sharks to thank for that.
Wasn't there some new law equating website ToS violations to hacking with penalties of 800 years in prison, regardless of whether you ever agreed to them or not? Probably tucked into a law about lead content in diapers?
Yeah, just like when the cost of a car tripled when they introduced power steering, power brakes, electric windows, cruise control, anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control,...
Yep, they even axed the 17 inch screen because only power users need it, and that's not their target demographic.
Well, my 2010 17 inch is still going strong after replacing the HDD with an Samsung SSD. I probably would have bought two new 17 inch laptops in the mean time, but now I'm just stretching this one as long as I can.
Turkish Airlines 1951, Amsterdam 25 february 2009.
Automatic approach, radio altimeter failure let the autopilot think it was just above the runway while it was in fact still at 2000 ft above the ground. Autopilot commanded throttles to idle, airspeed dropped to stall speed, plane crashed.
The verdict: pilot error. They should have reacted to the dropping airspeed by taking control, pushing the throttles forward and initiating a go-around.
There are plenty of other examples where autopilots have flown aircraft into mountains or done other stupid things yet the pilots took the blame (rightfully so) because they should have seen what was happening and taken over.
We don't actually have our hands at the controls during most of the flight because with sufficient altitude there's rarely a situation where you have to immediately take over in a fraction of a second. The air is pretty empty. At low altitudes, however, even when the autopilot is on, we are required to be ready to take over at any time.
Elon is against lidar because it can't see through fog. They are working on updating the radar so that, instead of a single distance value, it can use multiple measurements in different directions to create a point cloud, much like the lidar systems that Google is using but using radar instead of light. Rumor has it that this might even be possible with the current hardware, only requiring a software update. I must say I have some doubts there.
There have also been rumors about stereoscopic cameras in Tesla mules. IMHO they should install a camera on the far left of the windscreen and another one on the far right, creating maximum stereoscopic depth for the AI to work with. Right now, Tesla only uses a single camera in the middle which they claim is almost as good as a stereoscopic one. Apparently not quite good enough, though.
An autopilot landing is actually more work and is more stressful than a normal, manual landing. There's a checklist of things to verify before you can even start the approach, and we have to be extremely attentive to any errors the autopilot could make. We regularly practice these approaches in the simulator: ground equipment failures, autopilot failures, instrument failures, engine failures, you name it. Some of these are quite subtle, like the one that crashed a Turkish Airlines flight in Amsterdam in 2009. The radio altimeter malfunctioned, so the autopilot thought it was close to the ground and pulled the throttles back to idle. In reality, the plane was still 500 ft above the ground and stalled.
Interestingly, the accident was classified as "pilot error" because the pilots should have intervened when the speed dropped below approach speed.
Just add more insulation, then!
Not sure the carbon-balance is there, ice costs quite a bit of energy to make.
You freeze a hundred or so during the winter and keep them in an isolated cellar..
Pretty sure they have a contact sheet that only LEOs and other emergency personnel use.
Yes, from Low Earth Orbit you can contact anyone.