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And since I am looking at the WSJ, here’s a subscribers only video about flaws in Tesla’s autopilot system.

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tesla-a...jem10point

The TL;DR version is that because Tesla relies on cameras instead of RADAR and LIDAR for autopilot, it runs into issues when it detects something that it is not trained on.  I think it is compounded by Musk’s salesmanship and branding of some features as “full self-driving” which messages to drivers that it is a higher level of autonomy than it actually is.

BC

The best money I never spent was declining the full self driving option when I bought my Tesla 7 years ago. I think most other manufacturers have already matched what Tesla was doing well with cameras, and I haven't seen any indication that Tesla has made much progress to get to full self driving. My battery will wear out before that feature is released...

Regarding Theranos ... the idea always had merit but that doesn't excuse the fraud. We are certainly on the verge of being able to diagnose many, many diseases through the combination of AI/computer modeling and simple tests. Diabetes screening at your eye exam? Yep, coming. Accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's through a simple blood test? Yep, coming. Send some toilet paper in for colon cancer screening? Yep, already here. And best of all, highly effective cancer vaccines (see Moderna's work on melanoma, for instance). We're all going to live to 100...

That last claim seems to me to be false. "We're" NOT "all going to live to 100." It is highly likely that millions of our fellow citizens (and those in other countries) will continue to lack the economic resources to gain access to cutting edge medical care (including diagnostic tests, care before and after delivery of the curative treatment, and follow-up besides the curative care itself). The fact that one can introduce a new technology into a society, including a democratic-capitalist one with very expensive medical care, does not imply or guarantee that that technology will be accessed, immediately, soon, or eventually, by all citizens of that society. Belief that it does has a name: "technological determinism," a belief which recurs and has yet to die off.

[MV72018]

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And since I am looking at the WSJ, here’s a subscribers only video about flaws in Tesla’s autopilot system.

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tesla-a...jem10point

The TL;DR version is that because Tesla relies on cameras instead of RADAR and LIDAR for autopilot, it runs into issues when it detects something that it is not trained on.  I think it is compounded by Musk’s salesmanship and branding of some features as “full self-driving” which messages to drivers that it is a higher level of autonomy than it actually is.

BC

The best money I never spent was declining the full self driving option when I bought my Tesla 7 years ago. I think most other manufacturers have already matched what Tesla was doing well with cameras, and I haven't seen any indication that Tesla has made much progress to get to full self driving. My battery will wear out before that feature is released...

Regarding Theranos ... the idea always had merit but that doesn't excuse the fraud. We are certainly on the verge of being able to diagnose many, many diseases through the combination of AI/computer modeling and simple tests. Diabetes screening at your eye exam? Yep, coming. Accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's through a simple blood test? Yep, coming. Send some toilet paper in for colon cancer screening? Yep, already here. And best of all, highly effective cancer vaccines (see Moderna's work on melanoma, for instance). We're all going to live to 100...

That last claim seems to me to be false. "We're" NOT "all going to live to 100." It is highly likely that millions of our fellow citizens (and those in other countries) will continue to lack the economic resources to gain access to cutting edge medical care (including diagnostic tests, care before and after delivery of the curative treatment, and follow-up besides the curative care itself). The fact that one can introduce a new technology into a society, including a democratic-capitalist one with very expensive medical care, does not imply or guarantee that that technology will be accessed, immediately, soon, or eventually, by all citizens of that society. Belief that it does has a name: "technological determinism," a belief which recurs and has yet to die off.