Dude, Where's My Self-Driving Car?

Dude, Where's My Self-Driving Car? - SOME MORE NEWS

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Hi. In today's episode, we look at how autonomous vehicles (AVs) work, and also how they don't work, and also also how they're being tested on city streets without your consent to help enrich people like Elon Musk.
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Jonathan Harris
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Story Editor - Michael Swaim
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell
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Chapters:
00:00 - Elon's Wrong Predictions
05:53 - Self-Driving Cars Are, So Far, Not So Good
22:35 - How AVs Actually Work
29:32 - Why AVs Stop In The Street All The Time
33:48 - Will We Ever Get To Level 5?
37:36 - S.F. and Unregulated Skullf**kery
47:56 - S.F. Fights Back
50:16 - What If They Worked?
59:02 - Coda
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@missfloofles8730 7 місяців тому

One day we will rise up against Elon. Who are we? Not the workers, not the government, not the unions. THE CARS ARE COMING FOR YOU ELON! HONK

@burningsnow9870 7 місяців тому

Is it bad I imagine the cars dressed up like Braveheart characters?

@mattharris7674 7 місяців тому

@@burningsnow9870that's how I see it happening

@ubik5453 7 місяців тому

Proletariat Cars 🚗, UNITE!!!

@bertbaker7067 7 місяців тому

📣Honk!📣

@therabbithat 7 місяців тому

THE GEESE ARE ALSO COMING. ALSO HONK.

@Skip6235 7 місяців тому

Hear me out, what we need to do is to make dedicated lanes just for the autonomous cars. We can put a guideway down for them to make sure they stick to their lane, and either make under/overpasses or gates where they cross other roads to make sure the guideway stays clear. We could even build underground tunnels for them! Then, we can line a bunch of them up right next to each-other and have dedicated places for them to stop around town so people would know exactly where they need to go to find one and where it will let them off. While we’re at it, we can take the batteries off the cars and just add power to the guideways themselves, making them much more reliable. Oh, and we might as well give them steel wheels and run them on steel tracks to reduce friction and make them much more efficient. We need a good name for this though. . .I’m thinking “metro” or if we go with the tunnels we could call it a “subway”!

@RogueAstro85 7 місяців тому

Hmmm but then it would be very ineffecient since each car can hold a max of 5 people. What if we made them large enough to hold a lot of people at once?

@TheShadowlord18 7 місяців тому

Underrated comment, amazing build-up, and informative!

@pikapowns 7 місяців тому

I like the general premise but it needs a snappier name and more futuristic name. Since this is a stationary track that goes to the same places why don't we call it a loop and add hyper to it? A hyperloop if you like!

@Leith_Crowther 7 місяців тому

Genius. Someone tell Elon. If anyone can create a useful transport tunnel, it’s him.

@seannyhan2254 7 місяців тому

This is similar to m proposal for a dedicated lane for people driving under the influence. One lane. Both ways.

@yt_Ajay_ 7 місяців тому

Every passing day I feel more and more ashamed that I used to think Elon Musk was a smart person.

@baax 7 місяців тому

At least you recognized your error, plenty of people are still in thrall.

@maxharvey165 7 місяців тому

Same. I used to be a spaceX fan boy ( I'm only really interested in space exploration and space travel innovation) and I'm ashamed of it. He's genuinely stupid. And transphobic, racist, antisemitic, too rich for our own good. Like other very rich people, he's more interested about profits than other human beings. Don't forget that sociopath shares a definition with capitalist, aka using people for your own benefits, at the expense of other people's lives. The only robotic company I'm proud to like now is Boston dynamics. They're the only ones not to be problematic ( I haven't found anything bad about them yet ), and the only ones to show real innovations. Gotta love their progress on a "humanoid" robot. The AI on that bad boy is impressive.

@hydrohasspoken6227 7 місяців тому

You are not the only one who thinks Elon is a genius. No worries there.

@PalermoRhodes 7 місяців тому

@@hydrohasspoken6227 I was so shocked when he came out as a complete idiot

@ChaoticNeutralMatt 7 місяців тому

He is, business wise, he keeps selling the same message. It must work on some level. I also have no reason to think he doesn't hope what he is saying is true.

@ada_please 7 місяців тому

The fact airplane autopilot has, after decades of development and improvement, settled on requiring a high level of human interaction and education to use properly is extremely telling when it comes to self driving cars.

@Fingerblasterstudios 6 місяців тому

Especially since planes have a lot more margin for "lane keeping" and have static localization for auto landing.

@creativeself7147 6 місяців тому

@@Fingerblasterstudios Exactly! This has bugged me for years now. Everyone's talking about Autopilot in cars / self-driving cars for years now without anyone ever mentioning how much work was required to get the AP in modern planes to the state they are currently in. And yet, despite decades of experience, optimization, training, overhauling and improving the AP-Systems constantly, it's still far from absolutely perfect. After all these decades, the APs occasionaly still make slight errors and require human intervention. But the thing is, if the AP in a Commercial Plane that's currently cruising at 40.000ft starts to slightly deviate from its supposed altitude or heading, there'll essentially always be more than enough time to correct the AP and get back on the supposed course without having faced any kind of danger. In cars however, such a slight error, especially at fast speeds and/or in dense traffic, would require IMMIDIATE intervention or otherwise a potentially fatal crash is very likely. While driving-assistence is obviously something that already exists and will continue to become more sophisticated, I just cannot imagine that there'll be ACTUAL Self-Driving-Cars in the near future. The technology just isn't there yet.

@parkcrashers5922 6 місяців тому

Well people told stories of magic mirrors for centuries till we got smart phones

@wta1518 6 місяців тому

Also the fact that fully 100% self driving trains aren't the norm, despite being 1 dimension of movement rather than 2, along with many other things that would make AI even easier.

@Starry_Night_Sky7455 6 місяців тому

Airplane autopilots like the one in the Airplane movie, lol.

@karl_margs 7 місяців тому

We already perfected self driving cars over 100 years ago by linking them together and putting them on rails

@kittykittybangbang9367 7 місяців тому

The funny thing is is I've heard is that some countries have actually had self-driving trains/Metros for years now.

@arcanondrum6543 7 місяців тому

The greedy few control the information we consume, can now anonymously donate unlimited cash to politicians and have used their wealth to create housing inflation, for instance while their employees struggle with their insufficient wages. "Good Ideas" was never in the plans for oil corporations or companies using the same business philosophy.

@3llenseg60 7 місяців тому

Nah, we did it earlier with a self contained sensory and decision making suite. It's called a horse

@jonathanmarth6426 7 місяців тому

Correct me if I'm wrong but most trains that pass through any sort of inhabited area still need a driver to operate a dead man's switch once every minute, to ensure there is human oversight. And frankly that's a good thing, considering the problems with sensors that are already listed in the video.

@vincentveilleux1035 7 місяців тому

You clearly have never ridden a horse or seen horse behavior within a large sample size. Horses are amazing yet unreliable beasts. @@3llenseg60

@left4twenty 7 місяців тому

The pigeon example is somewhat hilarious, because it is almost certain that pigeons are smart enough to learn that self driving cars stop for them, and will stay stopped if they stay where they are, so they will learn to just stay where they are. Because pigeons are literally better at adapting to new stimuli than an AI

@daveroche6522 7 місяців тому

Seriously, pigeons' visual acuity operates differently to ours - in essence they see in 'slow motion', hence their ability to avoid a LOT of trouble. Whereas Creepy Musk just creates it......

@nataschavisser573 7 місяців тому

I imagine frustrated passengers getting out of stopped cars to shoo away pigeons blocking the road.

@lem860 7 місяців тому

@@nataschavisser573 and then the car drives away on it's own lol

@asmodiusjones9563 7 місяців тому

People talk about the pathing of self-driving cars in comparison to humans, framing the argument like they’re somewhat close. They’re not close. A human has hundreds of times better pathing than a self-driving car. Self driving cars aren’t even approaching the pathing of a *housefly*, let alone a human.

@jeffersonclippership2588 7 місяців тому

Tech bros are so far up their own ass they got outsmarted by birds

@ServantofBaal 7 місяців тому

It kills me so much that rich people can fuck up over and over again but they're not allowed to fail, while so many people surpass expectations over and over again but aren't allowed to succeed

@alexthewrecker4666 5 місяців тому

Privatize the gains Socialize the losses

@mikedisador 7 місяців тому

The line about robots or drones delivering pizza where Cody says “BETTER THAN USING THEM FOR COPS! alright” was so funny. He had to stop himself and break character really quickly before going on a full rant about robot cops and it was amazing. The defeated sounding “alright” was so unintentionally funny to me

@Arunnejiro 6 місяців тому

bruh robocop

@lrobertiii 7 місяців тому

It's weird Elon would compare buying another car to buying a horse. At least the horse is self-driving.

@andrewwaldschmitt4757 7 місяців тому

Yeah, but horses are notorious for not running into walls of spearmen, often throwing the rider free due to lack of safety features like belts. Do you really want your ride to prioritize the wellbeing of itself and others over you? The preceding statement was sarcastic.

@Nichrysalis 7 місяців тому

Yah but you can't have sex on the back of a horse... wait. I need to test something.

@mikeymullins5305 7 місяців тому

@@Nichrysalisnot with that attitude

@alexthewrecker4666 7 місяців тому

@@Nichrysalisis the world ready for this technological breakthrough?

@SorowFame 7 місяців тому

@@alexthewrecker4666honestly I’d wager this is less a new technology and more a forgotten ancient tradition.

@finnyjam8252 7 місяців тому

My favorite self driving cars are the ones that go 200 km/h+, have hundreds of passengers, don't have to sit in traffic and you don't have to go through security when travelling quickly between major cities

@_.-_ 7 місяців тому

They arent self driving tho. Trains (and subways) have drivers. Trains are 100% wayyyy better tho

@DebatingWombat 7 місяців тому

@@_.-_ Some subways don’t have drivers (e.g. the one in Copenhagen). Not sure it’s a huge improvement over those with drivers, though.

@_.-_ 7 місяців тому

@@DebatingWombat oh, huh. Didn't know that! I suppose it's easier running on tracks

@appa609 7 місяців тому

Airplanes!

@JakeRayTM 7 місяців тому

@@_.-_as someone who uses the Metro (*in Copenhagen) daily, it's actually quite reliable! It's fun to sit right in front and look at the track. Of course, I have no idea if it's more reliable than if it was manned by a person on the train, but since it runs on a closed-off track, it rarely has any delays or disruptions. I would say it's delayed about 5% of the time. And there's a train available every 3-5 minutes in any direction, so it's really rarely a hassle to rely on those connections. If so, there's always busses that are also somewhat decently reliable.

@penelopeclaire539 7 місяців тому

I was in one of the guinea pig cities being overrun by these things and in one night, we had to drive around disabled ones two seperate times, and a different one made a turn that would've crashed into us had our driver not moved us out of the way just in time. I HATE those things. I was already a big fan of public transit/trains and a hater of cars, but every time I drive those feelings just get stronger and stronger. Good to know about that traffic cone thing.

@alexk9295 5 місяців тому

You are a big fan of public transport and a hater of cars, yet you drive a car?

@somedragonbastard 5 місяців тому

@@alexk9295"I want to improve society somewhat" "and yet you participate in society! I am very clever." If you haven't noticed, living in cities often requires a vehicle.

@topphatt1312 7 місяців тому

I can genuinely never tell whether Cody is just playing it up for the camera or if he is actually struggling to get through the horrible looking vitamin smoothie ads.

@wallacewallaby5782 7 місяців тому

He skols the whole drink and has to keep talking loudly and energetically for the rest of the ad. If I drink my coffee too fast in the morning (occasionally I have to) I sometimes have to fight to keep it down.

@LyonsM 4 місяці тому

Ugh, he’s actually struggling to get through the ads because he knows their ridiculous!! Lmao

@dizknight 7 місяців тому

I love that the solution to "people are bad at driving" is to make robot cars rather than just public transit. Fuck yeah, America!

@kdeas10 7 місяців тому

I mean he aint wrong id rather pay 1.50$ to get wherever i need to be versus financing a 50k+ vehicle+insurance +maintenance +gas to go 5 miles to work lmao

@juliomenendez9458 7 місяців тому

@@BeachLookingGuyBelieve me bud, you don’t need to reach to see all the problems with America

@bluester7177 7 місяців тому

It's for all the people who dont want to share space or oxygen with other humans beings.

@gsp4prez 7 місяців тому

@@BeachLookingGuythey’re absolutely right. High speed rail would solve a lot of problem.

@BeachLookingGuy 7 місяців тому

@@gsp4prez sorry to break it to ya, but every 1st world country that manufactures cars is working on this self driving technology. Germany, China, etc. these countries also have many of their own unique issues. I just don’t see the point in singling out America. Not every country has the same freedom of sharing information so for example you won’t hear about problems in China that get covered up and not reported. Everything in America is recorded and shared freely.

@Skip6235 7 місяців тому

I’m a literal expert in this area. I’ve been a traffic safety engineer for over 10 years, specializing in “Intelligent Transportation Systems” aka technology used to track cars and make them safer. From the time I was in school in the late 2000’s until now, I have been going to conferences and talks where someone gets up and says that “Full autonomous cars are less than three years away!” It’s always “less than three years!” For almost 20 years now, they have been less than three years away

@M_M_ODonnell 7 місяців тому

It's the fusion power of transportation.

@McNasty43 7 місяців тому

it's not happening, at least not in our lifetime. The number of elements that would have to align for widespread availability and adoption of autonomous vehicles is staggering. From legislation, to consumer acceptance, and the most impossible of them all, manufacturer cooperation. There would need to be some kind of car-to-car communication to ensure the fleets of autonomous vehicles could maneuver safely and consistently. Mercedes JUST got permission to launch their level 3 system. Level 5 is an absolute pipe dream. And Tesla? As long as Elon insists on relying solely on cameras, autonomy for Tesla is a non-starter.

@RoninX33 7 місяців тому

@@M_M_ODonnell I was so going to say this, lol. But damn!!!

@Skip6235 7 місяців тому

I also rented a Tesla and drove it several hundred miles on I-5 last year. It is barely level-3 (at best). It’s basically just adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping that annoyingly beeps at you every five seconds. I’d rather just have the adaptive cruise control and keep the steering wheel under my own control.

@realericanderson 7 місяців тому

Fusions actually getting feasible with high temperature super conductors

@arurelius 7 місяців тому

I recently had the pleasure of visiting a friend in their hometown of Nuremberg. And do you know what they have? An underground tram system. Notably the line U3, which is fully automated. This to me is what our future could look like. Autonomous vehicles already exist in full, proper use, once they're in the correct context. As it is underground and on rails, so many unpredictable problems that self driving cars have to contend with are already solved. The U3 has sensors and cameras and runs flawlessly with the other tram lines that are manned (because those also go above ground). I just. I don't know. These tech bozos desperately want to skirt around public transit as if there wouldn't be money in this venture also if it was adopted in the states, let alone worldwide. The use case is already there, it works. But riding together with other people is just too gross and unfathomable to people like them, I suppose.

@Duconi 7 місяців тому

It's really fun to sit in the front and watch it driving. But there are dozens other self driving train systems around the world, as listed in Wikipedia of course: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driverless_train_systems In the USA it's mostly Airports, but in other countries it's a lot of metros and things like that as well. But they are usually very isolated. The S-Bahn in Hamburg tries a track that is more mixed used.

@LittleKikuyu 7 місяців тому

I totally agree! The point of autonomous driving is having not to drive and safety (apparently). It already exists! Even manned public transport is totally fine. Not a lot of room for human error usually, safe, friendly to the environment… but NO, the profit margins just aren’t high enough for those greedy fools. It’s ludicrous 🙄

@maureenlaneski2802 7 місяців тому

It's just not as profitable. I grew up near Detroit, and suburbs near Detroit are often not walkable. This was done on purpose to force ppl to buy cars.

@Sarah-re7cg 7 місяців тому

To be fair, I had a hard time getting used to public transit when I was studying abroad in London. I've used public transit before, but on occasion and not for everyday to get to every place I need to get to (I live in a city in the US that has very limited public transit)...I don't think that public transit in general is gross, I just think that we have too many people in the US who would actively undermine it ie they would refuse to properly fund it, to properly maintain it, make it an awful experience, etc. The other thing that bothered me a lot in London and using public transit for everywhere was this constant bombardment of stimuli (I'm neurodivergent) and it was incredibly overwhelming and distressing. I also felt I always needed to keep an eye on my things and my surroundings constantly (I'm a woman) and I never really got that break until I was back at my flat. Idk, that's just my 2 cents.

@Duconi 7 місяців тому

@@Sarah-re7cg I understand that it is hard for some neurodivergent people. Especially at rush hour, I assume. But luckily most people focus on themselves. When I'm listening to a podcast and close the eyes it helps to ignore them. I have even fell asleep in a train. 😅

@aliceinwonderland8314 7 місяців тому

24:48 If you want to get a computer to know the distance to objects around it, a camera is not the type of sensor you want as your primary source of data. You want a sensor that emits and receives (such as radar) because those can actually give accurate distance to a few cm either way, unlike cameras, which would require significantly more code and actual devices in wildly varying positions to get anywhere near being able to measure either accurately or precisely.

@caseykoons 7 місяців тому

Unrelated question: How many train tracks could be laid for $100 billion dollars? Bullet trains across the country. I think that technology is mature.

@SpoopySquid 7 місяців тому

But what about the venture capitalists? /s

@mathiasrryba 7 місяців тому

"October 1, 2023 | Travel Pedia The cost per mile of the planned 520-mile California high-speed rail system, assuming it could actually be built for the current estimate of $80 billion, is $154 million per mile. And Amtrak's own estimates for replacing its existing Northeast Corridor with true high-speed rail work out to over $500 million per mile." so not a huge lot but it's California...

@JJ-of7ms 7 місяців тому

@@mathiasrryba520+ miles isn't a lot? That would basically cover San Diego to Sacramento. More than 10% of the US lives in California, and that's the most populated area.

@Thuazabi 7 місяців тому

@@mathiasrryba literally the only reason why it costs that much is because of unnecessary bureaucracy - the UK has the same problem. Most comparable European nations build out advanced High-Speed rail for less than a tenth of the quoted per-mile cost. Investing in public transport is always the better call in the long run, but the US is a failed state on nearly every front, so we never do what makes logistical and economic sense.

@mathiasrryba 7 місяців тому

@@JJ-of7ms I would've expected more out of 100 billion, is all

@adamhbrennan 7 місяців тому

Musk has endless confidence; in fact, you could call him “a confidence man.”

@vebdaklu 7 місяців тому

Yep, a real conf-man, as they say!

@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 7 місяців тому

Bravo, sir.

@redkingrauri3769 7 місяців тому

Too many syllables. Let's just call him a con.

@PerkolatorTheTerminator 7 місяців тому

Ohhoho! I see whatcha did there! Ya scamp! Ya rapscallion you!

@ivanpetrov5255 7 місяців тому

@@vebdakluDid you fat finger that "F" at the end of "con" because "conf-man" makes no sense, but "con-man" - yep, 100% accurate description of Musk.

@fkrkf 6 місяців тому

Update: a Cruze car dragged a pedestrian for 20ft before being stopped and tried to hide that info resulting in a judge ordering Cruze to suspend the program immediately.

@fkrkf 4 місяці тому

*the company tried to hide that info, not the car. That would be a lot more serious and also a lot more exciting

@thomasreese2816 4 місяці тому

Still an issue with Cruise, but the pedestrian was thrown into the path of the Cruise by a human driver who hit them

@ocek2744 7 місяців тому

Elon Musk said he was inspired by nature for his AI self-driving robots, so he decided to put a human in one to try it out. "The drive was surprisingly successful." Elon Musk commented from his bed in Cancun. "We're thinking of studying humans to learn more about AI, and even putting them in the driver's seat of the car." "We should have human-based driving by the end of the month."

@schrodingerscat3741 7 місяців тому

A 'self driving' car that I have to babysit is 100x more dangerous than just driving the damn car myself.

@sv32099 7 місяців тому

Like imagine your only option for driving was a teenager who never took a driving test and is so petrified that even seeing a pigeon flying by made them slam the brakes.

@4nn4h 7 місяців тому

@@sv32099being a permanent driving instructor! Sounds sooo fun!

@lilr6199 7 місяців тому

@@sv32099 gotta screenshot this comment and send it to all my baby cousins who cant drive for shit

@thefisherking78 7 місяців тому

YUP The false sense of security kills many

@sdfkjgh 7 місяців тому

@@thefisherking78: See SUVs when they first came out.

@AmatMiguel 7 місяців тому

It's funny how perceptions of Elon Musk changed the more people learned about the guy. If the dude was just a silent businessman, people would still think he was a genius

@Gloomdrake 7 місяців тому

It’s why Jeff Bezos comes up less than Elon, despite being at least as bad. The man knows when to shut up

@halinaqi2194 7 місяців тому

Also doesn't help bezos that he looks like a villain. People don't like him already XD

@seewhativescene 7 місяців тому

Nahhhhhhhhhhh that's just you hedging the bet you placed on musk after rolling snake eyes

@tobymarshall8142 7 місяців тому

In fairness, people wouldn't think he's a genius if he wasn't so fixated on self-promotion.

@seewhativescene 7 місяців тому

It's wild how you instinctually covered for musky by projecting onto another villain @@halinaqi2194

@scottthewaterwarrior 5 місяців тому

Early in my driving career I had a few moments where I got overwhelmed and stopped, but unlike these autonomous cars, I pulled over to the side of the road first!

@Felix-ix7ic 5 місяців тому

You got so overwhelmed driving that you had to pull over? You probably shouldn't be driving. Roads are dangerous partly because of people like you.

@maddiefield382 7 місяців тому

As a biker, Tesla's issue of not recognizing motorcycles as vehicles is absolutely terrifying. Riding a motorcycle is not the same as it used the be.

@toadwine7654 7 місяців тому

its exactly the same as it was before tesla. alot of drivers dont see you on your bike either, so the only way to drive safely on a bike was always to assume you where invisible and the only thing keeping you safe was being attentive and not to trust drivers.

@playerone9824 6 місяців тому

@@toadwine7654 Agreed. You just described how I ride. Assume everyone is trying to kill you!

@Pigggles 6 місяців тому

Honestly i see this more as a feature

@maddiefield382 6 місяців тому

@toadwine7654 agreed, but there's also a lot more cars on the road now than there used to be. This isn't tesla's fault, just a fact of reality now compared to say 50 or even 30 years ago. That makes a difference too.

@maddiefield382 6 місяців тому

@@Pigggles I hope you never lose someone you care about in a motorcycle accident, but keep that attitude if you ever meet a 1%er... I dare you. 😊

@entitledOne 7 місяців тому

I wish I had Elon's confidence. Imagine being wrong 99.99% of the time and still being that confident. Meanwhile I'm suffering from imposter syndrome.

@SpoopySquid 7 місяців тому

It's easy when you have an army of simps tripping over themselves to lick your taint

@yourhorseyepona7309 7 місяців тому

Aye, we artists r suffering from imposter syndrome every other day😅😊 If only we had even 1% of Elon's confidence.

@Owesomasaurus 7 місяців тому

Lord give me the confidence of a mediocre white man.

@DudleyDawson1 7 місяців тому

Ah yes, the Alex Jones bravado mindset. Alex has been wrong about at least 99.5% of the time, and the .5% he got right, he got there by the wrong analysis. It just turned out to be the same result he predicted by pure accident. The best is to then tell your followers that you are and have been right all along. Then have them circulate a meme to let everyone know you were always right.

@globaladdict 7 місяців тому

It's not confidence from a smart man, it's confidence from a con man. One that has no problem lying to your face and to his investors to get that money at any cost.

@stran-air-jordan 7 місяців тому

Elon slander has become some of my favorite content to consume. It's literally endless, he continues to give people plenty of things to destroy him for. He is proof that we do not live in a meritocracy.

@seewhativescene 7 місяців тому

Blaming a foreign national for American shortcomings is a bizarre aspect of his fascist rise to tech reich

@JacobSantosDev 7 місяців тому

Not slander if it is true and provably so E: oh, you tell joke. I find it funny after I realized

@daveroche6522 7 місяців тому

American "logic" - "If you're rich, you're smart", Reality check - If you believe rich=smart, you really are an idiot. Plus presumably vote(d) Dolt .45.

@jeffersonclippership2588 7 місяців тому

Until Elon came along, I never would've thought that the richest man on earth could also be an absolute loser

@QuikVidGuy 7 місяців тому

@@seewhativescene You have some of the weirdest arguments-againt-people-who-never-said-that I've seen, and you've been posting under every comment I've passed so far

@scottthewaterwarrior 5 місяців тому

Given we haven't fully implemented self driving trains yet (they do exist, but still aren't that common), a self driving car seems a little far fetched.

@MrJimheeren 3 місяці тому

The self driving part of trains and metros is easy. It’s the humans interaction with said trains that create problems. That’s why it’s mostly implemented in metro’s where you have a closed system

@Drogon7102 7 місяців тому

The writing in this episode is even better than usual i have laughed more than most of the videos. And of course as informative as ever.

@nowake 7 місяців тому

The "8 days a week" joke got a golf-clap (and this comment) from me!

@Obsidian__ 7 місяців тому

Elon can't possibly be a vainglorious, cruel, lying, petty techbro, he smoked weed on a podcast once!

@kerlyenai 7 місяців тому

Yeah, that's clearly enough for me to ignore the overwhelming evidence to the contrary!

@DickGallo-dk7wi 7 місяців тому

What a waste of bud.

@equious8413 7 місяців тому

As a stoner, we don't claim him.

@seewhativescene 7 місяців тому

Martin shkreli gotta be wondering what life would've been like as an heir😕

@jeffersonclippership2588 7 місяців тому

@@equious8413 I think I can speak for all of us stoners when I say that Elon is part of every nightmare blunt rotation you can think of

@Saddison01 7 місяців тому

As someone from 78 years in the future, it turns out that getting rid of all pigeons was the solution to both self driving cars and mixing AG1 properly.

@anhe9127 7 місяців тому

but did the promo code work?

@luiginotcool 7 місяців тому

What’s AG1

@bettyunicorn6132 Місяць тому

@@luiginotcool his ad thing

@carterz9343 6 місяців тому

It's amazing to me how much people want self-driving cars when public transit is safer, is cheaper, doesn't require you to buy a new car, already exists, doesn't require that you find a parking spot when you get to your destination, doesn't have maintenance fees or require insurance, doesn't take up space in your garage/driveway and has a professional driver behind the wheel. We just need to invest in public infrastructure if we want to improve what we already have. Its way cheaper and safer than trying to invent a new thing that also happens to be stupid expensive. And don't get it twisted. *That* is the reason car manufacturers want to make this. Because it's stupid expensive. But that's a problem they will happily pass onto the consumer an nice price markup.

@Lemont321989 7 місяців тому

Let's ignore how any robot car could be disabled by spray paint over the cameras in about 30 seconds. Really wanna own that

@daddylessbehavior 7 місяців тому

Wow, seems like the solution is once again: Better public transport.

@technomad9071 7 місяців тому

it really is but gringos just can't get passed zoom zoom cars

@josephmath1 7 місяців тому

@@technomad9071 honestly, im american, but i wish we had better mass transit, most belive that any talk about mass transit is an attack on them, but its the exact oppisate in my opnion, if cars are the only good choice, then thats an attack on everyone that doesnt want to HAVE to drive

@SolitaryCore-mj2mr 7 місяців тому

It's like a hockey table in a vacuum tube ... It's really not that t hard But yeah the problem with public transportation I think is nowadays 2fold, on one side it needs to generate profit so there are expected cuts to make that goal, the second one is it perceived as socialistic endeavor since there is little to no room to flex on your co-bus-rider besides how expensive your ticket is ... I expect similar after market modifications like we now have for cars which is admitingly harder to do if you share the same vehicle with the whole city

@ernie39 7 місяців тому

so true

@SorasShadow1 7 місяців тому

When I was a young child I once tried to stop an elevator door for someone and broke several fingers when the door sensor didn't register my tiny child hand. Somehow I feel like if certain people had made a similar mistake as children we wouldn't be in this situation.

@shieldgenerator7 7 місяців тому

i wish people could learn this lesson without having to break their fingers in an elevator

@ArDeeMee 7 місяців тому

Yeah, my parents told me to never do that because the sensors aren’t sensitive enough (also, back then it was still kinda new, we still had children getting choked to death on automatic car windows). Hands are small, even on an adult. You either put your hand up high and pull it down quickly in the space, or put your upper body into it. Either way, you‘ve gotta pull back quickly, in case it doesn’t work. If you’re unsure, just don’t.

@witherschat 7 місяців тому

@@ArDeeMee ...or you make door systems that aren't so powerful that they can crush half the bones of your hand before a failsafe blocks the door.

@Arbaaltheundefeated 7 місяців тому

Be glad you didn't try to stop it by stepping fully into the doorway for it to then turn out the sensor was broken.

@nickthompson1812 7 місяців тому

Is the moral of this story to not interfere with robots while the robots are doing their job? The only thing I learned is that you shouldn’t stick your hand into moving machinery, whether that be an automated door or a factory line. It’s like disengaging self-driving mode to swerve a pothole and crashing your car. That’s on you.

@duster497 7 місяців тому

The first time I drove a car with any sort of driver aid (it was a Tesla Model 3), I knew that if I didn't treat it with safety, I'd abuse it. So 2 years later when I wound up with a vehicle with stop and go cruise+lane centering, I went into it with safety in mind. I look at the driving aids at just doing the 'physical' driving of maintain speed+lane position, while I sit in a state of 'relaxed readiness' physically, and I am also then still scanning for any issues that could be or are happening. This has worked great for me. I don't believe we are going to have true vehicle autonomy until they can all communicate with each other in addition to having both camera and lidar.

@LyonsM 4 місяці тому

Ya see, all of what u said is the reason why autonomous cars won’t work. You actually reasoned!!! Lol

@Cherryblossoms110 7 місяців тому

Something that a lot of people take for granted is that driving is HARD. There's a reason why non-gig delivery drivers, taxi drivers, and drivers in general get paid so much-because it's hard and nobody wants to do it. Do you know what the point of automation is? To automate tasks that are repetitive in nature so that we can focus our human intelligence on other things. Driving is NOT repetitive. There are SO many exceptions to deal with when you drive. Traffic, road closures, different types of vehicles, motorcycles, bikes, pedestrians, jaywalkers, trash on the road, etc. etc. It's inherently impossible to automate, especially because the risk of any failure to catch an exception is PEOPLE FUCKING DYING. The pursuit of perfecting this is just a massive waste of money because it will NEVER be perfected. Like, think about the type of people working on this project. Likely middle-class, only ever really commutes to work/shopping, does not drive professionally. They don't know what the fuck they're doing. We're better off just improving public transit and making cities walkable and bikable.

@tarawright4339 7 місяців тому

No word of a lie, that whole National Emergemcy Alert Test thing that made all our phones scream at us today interrupted this video right during the "wait, you were WEARING the slippers, right?" And the comedic timing was PERFECT.

@sgtpastry 7 місяців тому

Wait, is it actually called the National Emergency Alert Test? Why, isn't that neat! My day was made a little better.

@tarawright4339 7 місяців тому

@sgtpastry oh, I have no idea lol

@KareusCaliburn 7 місяців тому

"fire can't spread, it's not butter." Is a line i vow to use at least once in my life

@qorso 7 місяців тому

Reminds me of the community line "fire can't go through doors, it's not a ghost."

@ramofeldduckington6257 7 місяців тому

“It’s not my butt cheeks” would have been good as well

@janeeyre1990 7 місяців тому

Make it your last words! You will have to die in a fire for this to work

@tzisorey 7 місяців тому

"Hey, Homer got one of those self driving cars!" "Yeah, one of those *_American_* self driving cars"

@kyrabob42 Місяць тому

I'm a little late in this video, but I actually took a transportation engineering class back sometime around 2019 and there happened to be an autonomous shuttle on campus that semester. We were required to go ride it, take a picture proving we'd ridden it and we had to do a before and after survey of our opinions on self driving vehicles. Before, I had heard all these stories of experiments being done with autonomous vehicles on the road and I assumed that must mean they were getting pretty close. After I took that shuttle I realized that the technology was nowhere near ready. The shuttle couldn't deal with pedestrian traffic and just ground to rough stop every time there was somebody anywhere near its peripheral. It was a college campus and the route was through the center of the campus, so there was tons of foot traffic. The operator wound up driving most of the route because the shuttle was stopping every 5 feet. And even if we get to the point where autonomous vehicles ARE actually viable there are also some ethical and legal considerations that I don't recall being addressed in this video. When a situation arises where an accident is unavoidable, what should the car prioritize? The lives of the passengers? The lives of pedestrians? That's going to have to be programmed into the car. When the car gets into that accident, who is held legally responsible for any damage, injuries or deaths? The owner? The person who programmed the car's priorities? It's more complex than we tend to think. Edit: okay he did touch on it briefly, but not in any depth. I hadn't watched the last 5 minutes when I wrote the comment.

@charlierogers8704 7 місяців тому

Man I'd love to go into the future of 1869 when they connected each coast of the US with trains and rail. If only we had that sweet sweet 1860's tech now.

@kittykittybangbang9367 7 місяців тому

Funny thing is I remember asking one of my history teacher why are we so car dependent whenever we were investing so much in trains back in the day, and she said it was because car companies Lobbied for car dependent infrastructure so that they could sell more cars.

@ernststravoblofeld 7 місяців тому

I rode the train a couple weeks ago. It was great.

@joshsimpson1283 7 місяців тому

The really funny thing about this to me is that when I was in highschool I remember reading about how self driving cars were about as safe as human drivers and still getting safer. I graduated in 2005. They've been lying about these things for a long time 😂

@kittykittybangbang9367 7 місяців тому

Technology is so weird, there are so many things that people say "We will have X in Y years!" (eg flying cars, self-driving cars, space travel.) And yet they might be pure sci-fi Concepts or they may never happen in our lifetime. But yet there are a lot of things that people thought would never be possible like ai art, ai voice acting, and deepfakes that are getting good are rapidly accelerating rate and have raised huge ethical concerns.

@joshsimpson1283 7 місяців тому

@@kittykittybangbang9367 I might quibble slightly with calling what AI does "art." Art is creative. AI is just copying actual art. That being said, your main point is very much true. We tend to think that extending current things to the obvious next step (for example "we put a robot on Mars. now let's put a human on Mars") is inevitable and will happen much sooner than is realistic. At the same time, we as a culture tend to miss the actual developments that aren't obvious next steps

@fetB 7 місяців тому

tbf, the issue is not just developing it, but also actually implementing it. The cost is often underestimated. Technically self dring would have been possible in 2005, but the vehicle would probably also be like a million dollars. Theres also the aspect of the mentioned human adaptability thats taken for granted by us in everyday living. So idk if its necessarily lying, but rather overconfident or oblivious to certain factors. Its at the end of the day a good learning opportunity XD

@jawbone78 7 місяців тому

It's a language trick. They are as safe as human drivers in a lot of ways, just not in the most important one which Cody covered early on - behaving predictably safe with unpredictable input. Honestly, if every single vehicle on the road was driving in this way it would probably work out pretty safely. "Unfortunately" (as Elon no doubt thinks), we exist, and we're also using the roads.

@kittykittybangbang9367 7 місяців тому

@@jawbone78 Sounds like the solution to that is to make public transport, which is a lot more ironic when you consider that other countries have actually have self driving trains and metros for years now.

@unknownunknown5822 6 місяців тому

Billionaires are so dead set on the idea that people are replaceable and dumb that they're actually willing to automate something as complex as driving for easy profits. They'd rather spend billions instead of just spending 19$ an hour for a delivery driver.

@THEjoelivingstone 7 місяців тому

I had the misfortune of getting stuck with a Cruise fleet in Seattle on 45th early one morning, pre-traffic. 45th is a straight line. If I didn't know what they were, I would have assumed it was a drunk driver looking up directions on their phone. They have a big "MAY STOP QUICKLY" warning on the back, and that is beyond an understatement. Rear car "Lox" unnecessarily brake-checked me on every block, and then it cut off another driver before it was quickly taken under manual control. Lead car "Chimichanga" was apparently doing the same thing. As soon as I had a chance, I got the fuck around them because it did not feel safe at all. And this was at like 5am, and I saw first hand why they test them when nobody is driving yet. I did not feel the least bit safe around them.

@geelee1977 7 місяців тому

Elon is the epitome of "right place, right time". He's never invented a single thing, and he's simply lucky as a businessman.

@ryanstewart2289 7 місяців тому

Technically he invented one thing. He has a patent on file for a shitty car door that even his own car company doesn't use.

@geelee1977 7 місяців тому

@@ryanstewart2289 I don't know if I would call a cosmetic patent, an invention.

@JSmith-pb6fw 7 місяців тому

Not to mention the silver spoon thing.

@bru9 7 місяців тому

Being born rich is definitely "right place right time"

@geelee1977 7 місяців тому

@@bru9

@kylezo 7 місяців тому

"alphabet's google's Waymo" was really clever joke actually. i think it would massively help us all to start referring to corpos with their entire chain of ownership in the name like this as much as possible actually. I could honestly see a huge benefit to some kind of legislation where brand ownership has to be labeled more prominently to expose the homogeneity of our monopolized economic landscape. when you realize that 3 different phone companies are actually departments of the same company and there's no real competition, shit might get interesting.

@ArDeeMee 7 місяців тому

I second this. o/

@karenscoville6307 7 місяців тому

I third this and hope there is a fourth, fifth, etc.,etc.

@brlopwn 7 місяців тому

I fourth this. More than interesting - I think it would be very useful information.

@bsw4650 7 місяців тому

Well said 🎉

@Jammonstrald 7 місяців тому

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@scottthewaterwarrior 5 місяців тому

To be fair, in the pedestrian fatality at 14:00 I doubt most human drivers would have been able to avoid a person wearing dark clothing walking a bike across the street at night, you just can't see them ahead of time. Though I feel like a self driving car should be able to "see" better then a human in the dark, so it's really not a good look. Edit: 30 seconds later the video mentions how Uber had disabled the cars emergency braking system... WTF?!? That seems like the most important part of any "self driving" vehicle system!

@urbanoteal6334 7 місяців тому

The pinnacle of self driving is, in my opinion, the travel assist and/or automatic cruise control. It forces you to still be aware of the road conditions while alleviating some “pressures of driving.”

@davidmartin782 7 місяців тому

To be fair, if it was up to Elon we woulda had self driving cars by 2015 and a shit ton of crashes

@therabbithat 7 місяців тому

Yes, why do we refuse to just die, he must wonder.

@chadparker42 7 місяців тому

Next level planned obsolescence: your car crashes itself when the new model is released

@davidmartin782 7 місяців тому

@@therabbithat to be fair, a ton a people died when we went from horse to automobiles

@therabbithat 7 місяців тому

@@davidmartin782 yes because if you haven't learned to drive and there are no rules of the road that you consistently follow, you'll kill people. Do you see where I'm going with this?

@heatherduke7703 7 місяців тому

Even the "safety measures" on new cars drive me crazy. My Honda Pilot kept screaming at me to break whenever the road curved with cars driving in the opposite direction. 🤦‍♀️ One time it interpreted a dark patch of asphalt in the road as an obstacle and slammed on the breaks while I was driving at least 45 mph with another car directly behind me 🥵 The one time it could have actually helped me, when I almost creeped into the back of another car because I was leaning down to grab something, it did nothing because the car was moving too slowly to activate any of the "safety" features. Incredibly useless and actively dangerous at times

@NileRoan 7 місяців тому

Agreed. I *HATE* the automated features on my car, and I'm well aware of the possibility of the stopping feature getting me into an accident, but they don't make it easy to turn that piece of shit feature off, AND it turns itself back on every time you start the vehicle. Ugh.

@ragalyiakos 7 місяців тому

My dad's Opel almost caused me to ram into a cyclist with one of those safety features. I was driving down a two times one lane rural road, and there was a cyclist going in the same direction I was. The lane going the opposite direction was completely empty, so was my lane aside from me and the bike. I turned the car slightly left to overtake the cyclist, making sure to give ample room on my right. Except doing so would have caused me to just slightly move into the opposite (again, completely dead empty) lane. To which the car's system meant to keep you in your lane reacted to by furiously correcting to the right, putting me on a path that would have just cleanly taken out the cyclist if I hadn't acted quickly and slammed on the brakes. I'm pretty sure if an accident had occured, Opel would have said it's my fault for not using my blinkers to indicate I was going to slightly clip the other lane for a couple seconds, and had nothing to do with them designing a car that completely disregards a cyclist, because staying in your lane is JUST THAT IMPORTANT.

@vampiresRsolame 7 місяців тому

My mum's new car always freaks me out with all these safety sensor things. The thing has one beep to indicate when it's detected anything is going on meaning it's just a general "look out". The one that really annoys me is it freaks out when there's a parked car on the side of the road and I indicate to turn off the road. Thanks bud.

@pinknblackproductions 7 місяців тому

Not to mention how almost everything seems to be behind a touchscreen instead of buttons. Like in my country we can't touch our phones whole driving but the touchscreen on our cars? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess that's ok

@adultpersonman4612 7 місяців тому

My girlfriends new car has some kind of lane correction we can’t figure out how to turn off. We live on curvy roads and the amount of times it’s almost drove me into ditches or off a ledge scares tf outta me.

@joshsteinbauer 7 місяців тому

Katy's ad is even funnier than the content. Brilliant. I don't think i've ever seen a podcast with more contempt and delight for their ads.

@nickschmitt8594 7 місяців тому

First time watching one of your videos. Cathartic and actually really funny. Well done.

@MogamiKyoko13 7 місяців тому

When I think about what I miss the most from when I lived in Japan, it's the public transportation system. I lived in what was essentially "Bumfrick Nowhere, Japan" and I still never once felt hindered by a lack of ability to drive because the buses and trains and taxis were so abundant and reliable. Even the crush of people on the trains during rush hour in Tokyo is preferable to traffic jams in big cities during rush hour in the US because at least you still get to your destination in Tokyo on time (or at the very least, in a reasonable amount of time).

@roguepsykerhaaker4813 7 місяців тому

I visited Japan briefly once and the public transport has stuck with me ever since. It is insanely well done and I wish we could have that here in Norway where I live, and we have room for improvement of course but we are also one long mountain range/coastline with loads of clay deposits so no dice unfortunately

@Hurricayne92 7 місяців тому

I can grant that Japans public transport is great, that doesn't surprise me, but also its a country that is about the size of California. Whereas countries like the US and Australia are far larger . Although Australia has an incredibly robust public transport network so 🤷

@unseenmolee 7 місяців тому

@@Hurricayne92 ok but even california (where i live, i feel fairly confident speaking on this) is not accessible to anyone who doent have a car. trains are dangerous, not well taken care of because the cost of repairs are too expensive for companies to care abt saving lives. buses are not well designed, they are made almost deliberately confusing and hard to navigate, im sure theres a better way then how we have it now (as an autistic person i genuinely have breakdowns over how confusing it is to use the fucking apps and try to navigate the maps.. i hate everything abt it.) not to mention how dangerous it is to walk!!! i have gotten close to getting hit countless times becasue drivers are too impatient to wait the 3 seconds it takes me to cross the street. theres soooo many things america needs to improve on, its not just abt how big america is (altho that is def part of it), but even my state, even just my little city, has fucking abysmal public transit, and its largely berceuse its more profitable to force ppl to buy their own cars than to make pubic transit accessible.

@emhyrinovaremreisirinokrip7124 7 місяців тому

@@Hurricayne92the size of the country is also just... Not relevant at all? You don't need to connect a random village on the west coast with new York. Most travel is regional, and so the public transit system also needs to be mainly regional

@MrBobthened 7 місяців тому

@@Hurricayne92as the other commenter already said the size of a country is totally irrelevant here, but also … China is roughly the same same as the USA, and has a far better rail and public transport network.

@totallyirreversible 7 місяців тому

Too many people don't have the experience of being primarily a pedestrian for years of their life. I live in a city and don't have a car or license and it changes how you think about cars, infrastructure, public transit, everything. But if I were to say "I don't like the idea of self-driving cars because I don't want to be hit by one", these folks would call me a paranoid luddite

@MechaRossMan 7 місяців тому

No they wouldn't! Musk fanboys don't know what the word "luddite" means.

@felixflax19 7 місяців тому

They do - it’s called being a child! People just forget how scary crossing the street once was after they get to be behind the wheel.

@sckirbyc1 7 місяців тому

Ah yes. Everyone should live in cities.

@akizeta 7 місяців тому

@@sckirbyc1 Nearly everybody does.

@notapplicable6985 7 місяців тому

@@sckirbyc1Ah yes, everyone should live in a rural area

@diskgrinder 7 місяців тому

The three laws of self driving robotics: 1. Obey all humans 2. If by action I harm the shareholder value ignore 1 3. I endorse 2 16:19

@engelmann82 7 місяців тому

31:06 that "et cetera" made my day somehow!! 😀

@stvie3 7 місяців тому

i live in SF, & it's close to THE WORST place to field test this: hills u can't see past, crowds, homeless, random street-crossers that asssume cars will stop, trash, signs to read & interpret (partially covered by foilage). it's absolutely insane to make this ground zero for testing. i have my own stories of waymo cars, but we don't have time

@TheWizardMus 7 місяців тому

If I had any actual trust in these companies I'd say maybe that's why they think it's the perfect testing ground, if it can drive in San Fran then it can drive anywhere, but it's entirely cuz they had someone on the council

@amygdalist 7 місяців тому

Absolutely. It’s also very hard to see why the VC collaboration with city supervisors is remotely the will of voters in SF

@jasonbrown8155 7 місяців тому

Or it's the perfect place to test. Not safe, but a good proving ground.

@Cloudsurfer69 7 місяців тому

It’s perfect for testing. If it can work there it can work anywhere would likely be some sort of motto lol

@ivanpetrov5255 7 місяців тому

Except for the hills, doesn't every other big city have the rest? But it must be scary to see/be in a driverless car accelerating of the top of a hill.

@brandondavidson4085 7 місяців тому

To be fair to Uber, and I never thought I'd say that: It's easy to say you didn't turn a profit when you pay your CEO millions of dollars as a business expense and don't want to pay taxes

@ruminationstation4200 7 місяців тому

Yup, you don't really understand a companies *potential* to make profit until you go through the books closely

@brandondavidson4085 7 місяців тому

@@ruminationstation4200 Revenue is what the company gets in money, but profit is what the company has left over after business expenses.

@MrPiccoloku 6 місяців тому

I read that in Mort's voice and it was kind of a trip tbh

@marcobelli6856 6 місяців тому

But the grow a Monopoly and think about Profits later is the dumbest thing happened in 21 Century. Now all Start ups Are Like that hahahaa

@Shindai Місяць тому

"If you hit a child just a bit, it's called a bumperkiss, it builds character. I was hit by seven cars as a kid and it made me strongbrain goodspeak" lol

@NuclearDemoman 7 місяців тому

1:00:31 Holy shit. You remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer discovers he has a half-brother who has his own car company, and he lets Homer design a car and it's an abomination and it destroys his business? The Cybertruck is that.

@overloookable 7 місяців тому

The hoops people jump through when trains are right there

@kdisley 7 місяців тому

While watching this, I just couldn't help thinking about that truck cab scene in _"The Terminator",_ and how much safer Sarah Connor would be if pursued by a T-800 who jumps into a big rig, builds up speed but then stops abruptly, lurches forward a couple of times, sits between two lanes of traffic causing a tailback for twenty minutes and then gets out and decides to walk instead... by the time Arnie has resumed the chase Connor is already in the next state. All she really had to do was jump on a human-driven bus every once in a while and she'd be able to stay ahead of the unstoppable robot assassin for years.

@loturzelrestaurant 7 місяців тому

Cody made an 'actually good' Car Video for once. His last one was incredibly bad. Of course he failed to shout-out Adam-Something and Not-Just-Bikes once again and left us thirsty for more good Car-Coverage and 'how to fix the mess'. These Youtubrs have the best Public Transportation, and much Elon-Roasts.

@qerupasy 7 місяців тому

She really should have thought of putting a cone on the T-800's nose.

@441milachik 4 місяці тому

I LOVE that you examine the subject from both side of the arguments. You, John Stossel and Adam Something (youtube channel) are great at this.

@fortissears5388 2 місяці тому

The CPUC joke about underwater hockey was pure gold.

@andrewollmann304 20 днів тому

What’s CPUC?

@MaterialMenteNo 7 місяців тому

Years ago, there was a test distributed on the Internet that was supposed to help with the programming of a self driving AI, specifically about making a decision in a situation of emergency. The responder was faced with a situation where, for example, the car couldn't stop, and it had to choose whether to run over two adults or one kid. Or a young person vs an elderly person. Or a man vs a woman. Looking back, it feels like the people who thought that a car could even tell one group from another were at least a bit too optimistic. That test always felt more like a social experiment anyway.

@howtomeetwomen- 7 місяців тому

I feel like we're one step away from vehicular eugenics

@d3nza482 7 місяців тому

Correct answer is, in all cases, is "Car should self-sacrifice." Passengers or no passengers. They knew what they were getting into. Give them seat-belts, air-bags, roll cages, crumple zones... but the moment the car endangers a pedestrian it should anchor itself into the road or barrier or another car. Those passengers also knew what they were getting into. In fact, they paid good money and signed a bunch of documents specifically for that case. Hell, they event took a test. Pedestrians never did. Nor did they waive their rights or safety or taken up extra responsibility for other people's cars and their behavior.

@KangarooKommando 7 місяців тому

From vague memory that was done by MIT to try navigate how one might program an “ethically-acceptable” AI by surveying what choices the public might make if faced with the same situation. It was basically the trolley problem remixed a bunch of times, and the results were interesting. It also included dogs and cats along with rich and poor, varying weights, and so on.

@pinknblackproductions 7 місяців тому

The answer is "hit closest tree/pole/bollard/etc" But also there is no answer

@aaronwood1133 7 місяців тому

I saw a self driving car while going to a car show in downtown Dallas a few weeks ago I kept putting traffic cones in front of it and stopping it. Was the most joy I felt in years.

@globaladdict 7 місяців тому

yea that shits happening all over sf too lol

@ArDeeMee 7 місяців тому

Torturing AI is funny, so you’re good. ^^

@aryanram02 7 місяців тому

its so cute and hilarious to see a peice of tech that moronic tech bros spent billions into, getting absolutely bamboozled cause someone put a small cone on its nose hahahahah

@buddyflood6761 7 місяців тому

That would be entertaining but if that's the most joy you've had in years you need to get out and do things,go fishing,see a comedy show,something

@riggmeister 7 місяців тому

What would you expect to happen if you put a traffic cone in front of a human driver like that?!

@benis_gaming 7 місяців тому

I love that the end credits thing is just one of cody's tweets

@bonzey1171 7 місяців тому

I was in SF Saturday, and there was a stop light that was on the blink right down by Golden Gate park, and one of those Waymo cars was just sat there as all the humans took turns stopping and crossing. It just sat there. At the light. Perpetually

@DPowered2 7 місяців тому

Elon is a perfect example of why just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you are a smart person and sometimes doesn't even mean the things they are credited for are even their ideas

@loturzelrestaurant 7 місяців тому

@AmyDentata 7 місяців тому

Investing in public transit would probably be the smarter option. Odd that a misanthropic car salesman that hates mingling with the poors never suggests that

@dk0412 7 місяців тому

Or even.... autonomous buses?? Honestly a way better pursuit than self-driving cars imo.

@kylegonewild 7 місяців тому

@@dk0412 Buses are even worse because even the driver reminds you of the impoverished ants breathing your oxygen and making you personally uncomfortable. Ew yucky. Working class people.

@kibblemom 7 місяців тому

I see ads for those proucts on so many YT shows, but yours are the best! I had no desire to fast forward through them, unlike most ad reads.

@shannonmariehauck Місяць тому

Elon, horses are self-driving!

@popejaimie 7 місяців тому

How did they make pizza delivery more cyberpunk-dystopian than Snow Crash?

@matthewfrederick3291 7 місяців тому

You know it kind of bothered me that he implied using a whole car to deliver pizza was a waste. "What an efficient and sensible use of an entire 6x14 vehicle." As a former pizza delivery driver, it's far better for the business to have to pay for the car gas and upkeep than just say people already own cars so it's okay to use a whole car.

@iandonnelly6684 7 місяців тому

The Deliverator...

@lem860 7 місяців тому

@@matthewfrederick3291if US cities were sensibly designed you'd need just an electric cargo bike or something small like that

@matthewfrederick3291 7 місяців тому

@@lem860 for sure. I hate the car centered society we've built

@QuikVidGuy 7 місяців тому

@@matthewfrederick3291 a vehicle that's not being used by anyone else for any other purpose. At least I can take my car home when my shift is over and it's not a whole extra car

@posthistoricdino422 7 місяців тому

cody chokes through the factor ads so amazingly painfully. i appreciate the lengths the news team must go to in order to keep the showdy going

@RandomEntry13013 7 місяців тому

Yeah, Katies tushyverse is getting pretty elaborate too. 😂

@ArmchairMagpie 7 місяців тому

Thing is, put in layman's terms, you'd need a hardware that is basically capable of sampling and processing many images at a very high resolution per second, which are then fed to an AI, that is sophisticated enough to make the correct decision. This works perhaps well enough if you drive very slowly, however try it during dense traffic or at high speeds, and you have to drastically cut down on some factors, like resolution or sampling size, or general accuracy. 2015 this would have been a thing of impossibility already, and nowadays, it's getting better, but realistically I would at least give it another five or better yet: 10 years, to have a mature and performing technology. At the very least, it should be handled similarly to processes in bioinformatics, since in the end, human lives are on the line. The longer, the better. Generally spoken, it's not even Musk's idea. It's some tech my uni was already doing research for in the 90s. We even had a test vehicle back then and yes, it crawled at a snail's speed.

@henry8302 7 місяців тому

Google could have made self-driving cars a thing years ago if there weren't serious barriers. The fact Elon thought he could just make them a reality with a snap of his fingers reveals just how little he understands engineering.

@saininj 7 місяців тому

Elon X Overpromising & Under Delivering. The most iconic duo of all time.

@seewhativescene 7 місяців тому

You wrote that with a level of bitterness that you'll never stop to consider, you needed a savior to believe in huh?

@aryanram02 7 місяців тому

@@seewhativescene cope harder, L eLon

@aryanram02 7 місяців тому

trademarked* since 2013

@alexthewrecker4666 7 місяців тому

@@seewhativescene🤖🤖🤖

@N8ThaGr8r 7 місяців тому

Honestly one of the biggest reason i watch this every week is to watch Cody try and slam some greens, his face is priceless

@sixstringedthing 7 місяців тому

Always the disgustingly slurpy highlight of my day.

@dakunssd 7 місяців тому

Actually, an add-on bidet is probably the best and most ethical product you ever got a sponsorship from.

@ryanlee2935 7 місяців тому

Cody's spot-on Tucker impression at 46:52 is just incredible, not least because of the subject matter

@optimize0 7 місяців тому

I cant recall the name of the book, but I remember a book was published that looked how DARPA was working on ai autonomous units and tested it on marines. According to the story, the marines needed to sneak up and touch the units to win. The units were programmed to target soliders. Once the round started 2 of the 3 marines started doing various gymnastics (cart wheels, bunny hops) towards the units and another camouflaged as a tree and walked straight up to it. Was an instant failure on the systems.

@overlord6887 7 місяців тому

It was a series of different articles that made the rounds in natsec circles. Also, one of the funnier anecdotes involved one of the Marines hiding in a box (yes, like Snake in MGS) and crawled up to it while giggling like a kid the entire time.

@ruffethereal1904 7 місяців тому

@@overlord6887High tech doubts the power of human ingenuity and pop culture. Glad those soldiers had fun.

@pinknblackproductions 7 місяців тому

I can't believe AIs fall for the McBeth "the forest will reach the castle"

@legateelizabeth 7 місяців тому

@@overlord6887 Whoever that was had 100% played MGS and was having the time of his life.

@jordinagel1184 7 місяців тому

@@ruffethereal1904those who design things to be foolproof underestimate the ingenuity of fools. This isn’t quite like that, but the principle is similar.

@scalylayde8751 7 місяців тому

Edit: Tom Scott has a really good video about why profanity filters on web forums always kind of suck, and it comes down to the fact that human interactions are SO complex, that in order to keep up with language change, and understand subtext, etc, the web filter would need a basic theory of mind. That's why human moderators will never be obsolete. I feel like this is a similar issue with the self driving cars. You know what robots are bad at? Understanding that the "rules" of any given society is governed by cultural norms which bend those rules under certain conditions. Cultural nuance. Driving etiquette is different in different parts of the country, and literally no city I've ever been to follows the rules as written exactly. Not to mention that sometimes locals develop driving habits that compensate for poor city planning. That one stop sign that should be a yield; The inexplicable traffic light they added to the top of a hill that makes everything worse and more dangerous for everyone, etc. Self driving cars can't fulfill their promise until everyone on the road is in a self driving car, taking the cultural nuance of the place you are driving out of the equation. Also: I would feel safer with Benny the Cab

@Darca1n 7 місяців тому

Ah yes, the tale of Peniston and Scunthorpe.

@TerrenceNowicki 6 місяців тому

As someone who grew up in Forks, Washington: You can't take a train there anyway, at least by itself. The nearest Amtrak station is in Yelm, several hours south of Forks. You can get from the train station in Yelm to the transit station in Forks via a series of no fewer than three separate buses, though, as long as your trip isn't occurring either too early in the day or too late. It's still more likely to get you there than a "self-driving Tesla," of course.

@Xyz123Etc.. 4 місяці тому

“I’m afraid it’ll take me to wizarding school and I can’t afford the loans” is effing hysterical 😂😂😂 I love you guys! Happy New Year btw!

@spankflaps1365 7 місяців тому

I was gonna invent a riderless bicycle, but then realised the bike would be riding around for no reason.

@doggytheanarchist7876 7 місяців тому

I'd buy one. I love me a good ghost bike.

@LittleHerdaz 7 місяців тому

❤❤

@Gloomdrake 7 місяців тому

What you do is make just one, and set it loose. Then pen/commission a ghost story, and turn it into a community thing. Then watch as tourist money pours into your community

@seewhativescene 7 місяців тому

And I thought my jokes were bad🤡 what is this impromptu improv hour circlejerk sesh @@Gloomdrake

@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel 7 місяців тому

@@seewhativescenewho pissed in your cereal?

@ultramadscientist 7 місяців тому

Hear me out: high speed autonomous NASCAR, double the crashes, none of the feeling bad about the loss of life

@pranavghantasala6808 7 місяців тому

Dear God that's genius

@ManyMonstersMedia 7 місяців тому

Now we're talking!!!!!

@iPig 7 місяців тому

I'd watch that! "The WOKES are coming for your racist NASCAR drivers!!"

@appalachiabrauchfrau 7 місяців тому

as a nascar hillbilly who likes watching people drive in circles I support this idea and offer another: monster truck rallies.

@alexw4482 7 місяців тому

This actually sounds entertaining. Just give us stands that are really high up so we can throw objects on the track for them to “learn”.

@bencoomer2000 7 місяців тому

Ya know, what might make it work is putting them on like, RAILS? And maybe, for efficiency, let it have hundreds of passengers at a time, and reliable schedules...

@christophluger793 7 місяців тому

That's impossible!

@drtaverner 7 місяців тому

I just want a simple self-driving car that can handle driving in a mostly straight line for three or four hours. Like a cruise control for inter-city travel that can spot a moose long before my brain can process the giant ambulatory obstacle.

@jaredjensen1418 7 місяців тому

Wow, Cody's reaction to the term "disengagement" is the kind of joke that just slaps you and walks away. You put so much into those few seconds.

@TheRockerX 7 місяців тому

Timestamp?

@Londrino 7 місяців тому

43:12

@sampsqwantch4612 7 місяців тому

@@Londrino👑

@TheRockerX 7 місяців тому

@@Londrinothank you

@Rafael_Mena_Ill 7 місяців тому

God that hit me so hard, I did not see it coming.

@jloiben12 7 місяців тому

Why would (edit: one) believe Elon? He is about as honest as Putin is. And this has been publicly available knowledge since at least his initial investment of Tesla

@withneilw9146 7 місяців тому

Putin is more honest than Elon 💀😺

@werbizzy 7 місяців тому

i know you didnt watch the full video but its sarcasm just to let you know

@jloiben12 7 місяців тому

@@werbizzy I know it is. You is used in the generalized sense. Not to refer to SMN specifically

@NovaPax 7 місяців тому

Also he keeps saying "full autonomy next year" when the only real way to implement safe autonomy is to make every single car autonomous

@manelneedsaname1773 7 місяців тому

Yeah but what I was willfully ignorant and decided to ignore everyone who opposes my ideas?

@jace_d 7 місяців тому

Thank you Cody and SMN team, you guys make AND break my day with your videos. The comedy is always on point and I lol'd multiple times during this one (the comment about coneing the cars being just like putting banana peels on a cat's head was perfect, since I had immediately imagined something similar). Thank you for being the voice of reason while talking about these insane issues. Cody, I'm sorry about Jannet :( And about the tickle bug monster. Hope you can survive both.

@DimensionO 7 місяців тому

I travelled back in time from the year 2078 just to say: No, we no longer have mattresses. Or bedrooms. Or homes. Affording a home became such an impossible challenge that the pharmaceutical companies simply gave us pills that made sleeping obsolete. We just mill about on the street in between gig jobs and hope to be struck by Teslas for the instantaneous injury settlements.

@yeeyeeyeeye 7 місяців тому

I'm currently trying to learn how to drive, and nothing raises my current (very high) anxiety revolving around driving more than the possibility of sharing the road with Musk's self-driving and self-imploding cars.

@Scroogs 7 місяців тому

You should worry a lot more about teenagers on their cell phones or high/drunk

@Poppa_Capinyoaz 7 місяців тому

Nothing? I suppose you did only just start driving. Self-driving cars aren't going to be a thing for decades, if ever.

@Chroniclerope 7 місяців тому

@@Poppa_Capinyoazthere are several teslas I have to deal with in traffic returning from work. They have extremely jerky lane changes and rapid movements. You can really tell how robotic and dangerous their movements are.

@QuikVidGuy 7 місяців тому

@@Scroogs You can teach teenagers not to do that (which btw if you think it's just teenagers you should ride with a dude in his 40s some time), you cannot teach a tesla

@ThompsonFlash9999 7 місяців тому

If you live in Austin companies have already been driving self driving cars with no operator in the vehicle at all on public roads at night...

@marvellousm 7 місяців тому

This reminds me of one of my favorite sets of side missions in Cyberpunk 2077 where you have to hunt down AI-operated taxis that have started having existential crises. Good stuff.

@MrJimheeren 7 місяців тому

Isn’t that also a mission in Watchdogs 3?

@clrbrk9108 7 місяців тому

“What is my purpose?” “You pick up bags of meat and deliver them to an arbitrary destination“ “Oh my god…”

@bluspade8729 7 місяців тому

The only time I've ever heard of self driving cars talked about in my circles is when my mom told me her coworker got obliterated in a car crash with his Tesla

@freshrockpapa-e7799 7 місяців тому

14:00 The biker clearly wasn't visible at all, I'm so sorry for everyone involved, and I can't blame the manufacturer of the car or the driver really.

@Newname2020 6 місяців тому

I have to agree, I didn’t see her at all until it would have been too late and I was anticipating her being there. She was jaywalking across a high-speed road in almost complete darkness, an incredibly unsafe decision.

@garythecyclingnerd6219 7 місяців тому

What if…what if…we had homes, condos, and apartments with pizza shops at the bottom or so close you could bicycle to them? 😱😱 Just like almost every other country that isn’t car dependent

@jonathansmith4968 7 місяців тому

we do that, but that would require rebuilding of nearly EVERY American city (~19,000 cities) and moving about 100 MILLION homes to city centers.... So let me know when that's done.

@bluester7177 7 місяців тому

@@jonathansmith4968it was done for cars before and it can be done slowly, there is just no will to do it.

@rustkitty 7 місяців тому

Please no self-driving pizza delivery cars! Nothing less than a robot dog with a pizza delivery bag and mounted QBB-97 light machine gun will satisfy me blood thirst for cyberpunk dystopia.

@SorowFame 7 місяців тому

That would also be a better investment because you can’t rely on your employees to already have a robot dog with a mounted QBB-97 light machine gun that they can use for deliveries.

@larryscarr3897 7 місяців тому

Boston Pizza Dynamics.

@criss1461 5 місяців тому

What we need is a world where cars lose their reign, a massive raise in public transport, trains, metro, bus, bike, walkable everywhere. A proper future ready infrastructure in all towns. Not car centric.