Replies to post #86323 on Tesla Inc (TSLA)

[boston745]

dranesthesia1 you behave like a bot.

Yep reduce our dependence on tech. Have you ever seen or heard of the TV series/Book American Gods? Its interesting battle between science and nature. New gods are things connected to science and tech. Old gods are simply personifications of nature. Nature always wins in the end! Its happened before (Adams Event 42000 years ago) and its happening again. If you dont think mankind had advanced technology in the past then how do you explain pyramids, rocks precisely cut, not to mention a better understanding of the universe then we had until more recent times? Theres myths of advanced civilizations in the past like Atlantis but its even in the bible before Noah describing a civilization that spanned the globe even then. I recall as passage about a chariot of fire that went into the sky like a whirlwind which sounds alot like someone trying to describe a rocket to people without any reference to such technology. Described in better detail in apocrypha manuscripts not included. Basically nature wins!

2024 Tesla Y tried to kill us today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3o3kTKLNg

This was using auto steer. Why don't these spots get tagged in a database so that the autopilot simply disengages when it approaches problematic spots?

Essentially what happened here is the white dashes between lanes vanished for a small period and that confused Teslas autopilot system which led it to veer to the left to try to maintain its lane. The title is overstated likely to get clicks but it does show why people need to actively monitor these systems. This is a situational issue that can be programmed for. However EMI based glitching causes the system to process information incorrectly and then act in a different manner than it should in the situation or different than what the driver is instructing.

With the rise of self-driving car technology, it's possible that computer systems on these vehicles could malfunction due to cosmic rays. What if, during an automated trip, imagery from a camera mounted at the front of the car became corrupted and the on-board computer failed to spot a person walking out in front of the vehicle?

However, the research is yet to be published and he says he's not allowed to reveal what the starting level of accuracy was during the experiments.

Such interventions could make self-driving cars of the future safer but they wouldn't eliminate the possibility of a cosmic ray causing other problems. And this raises an interesting conundrum for insurers.

"In a world of fully autonomous vehicles, how can you prove the accident happened because of cosmic rays?" says Rech. "That is very challenging. I mean, it's impossible, by definition." In ambiguous cases, disputes over whether a human or technology manufacturer – or space weather – was at fault might be difficult to resolve

Impossible to prove but can and does happen. Can even be emulated in a lab setting.

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The computer errors from outer space
(Elon Musk: Model S not a car but a ‘sophisticated computer on wheels’)

When computers go wrong, we tend to assume it's just some software hiccup, a bit of bad programming. But ionising radiation, including rays of protons blasted towards us by the sun, can also be the cause. These incidents, called single-event upsets, are rare and it can be impossible to be sure that cosmic rays were involved in a specific malfunction because they leave no trace behind them.

And yet they have been singled out as the possible culprits behind numerous extraordinary cases of computer failure. From a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial airliner that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight, injuring dozens of passengers

Plus, since giant ejections from the sun can sometimes send huge waves of particles towards Earth, what's called space weather, an unnerving prospect looms: we could see much more disruption to computers than we're used to during a massive geomagnetic storm in the future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors