Unfortunately, there are also lots of drivers who drive worse than FSDB, and vastly outnumber the Teslas using FSDB.
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I donât want them in self-driving cars, either.
Or a drunk driver, or someone texting, or someone who just spilled their pumpkin spiced latte on their lap.
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Again, like why do you think those folks wonât be just as liable to be sitting in a âdrives itself but pay attention because it really doesnât know what itâs doing carâ?
Or, MORE likely, actually.
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Speaking of full self drivingâŠ. anyone in the Phoenix area want a ride? Phoenix â Waymo
Simple math.
We took a Waymo a while back - very strange feeling,
now available in some areas fully driverless
Itâs crazy that people still believe Elonâs hype and nonsense. Anyone who is interested in understanding the reality of Tesla should read Ed Niedermeyerâs book:
https://www.amazon.com/Ludicrous-Unvarnished-Story-Tesla-Motors/dp/1948836122
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Actually, Iâm not sure I believe all the hype. After all, most believe that a computer vision only stack will never succeed. Most say that multi-sensor approach reliant on LiDAR is the best approach (example Waymo). Not sure where you stand on that.
If you read journals, or occasionally scan LinkedIn employees at Tesla itâs pretty evident their autonomy team is top notch.
I can say Musk is kind of outrageous and at the same time recognize leading edge engineering. Many others cannot divorce the two.
Even Charlie Munger calls it a minor miracle.
His shift to vision only is a good example of how Teslaâs solution is sub-optimal. It stemmed from a falling out with Mobileye (later bought by Intel) because they called him out for misusing their sensors and killing people: Mobileye spills the beans: Tesla was dropped because of safety concerns â Ars Technica
Tesla has been hobbled by this decision for the last six years. The safety problems are getting even worse now they dropped both radar and ultrasonic sensors to cut costs (After cutting radar, Tesla now dropping ultrasonic sensors from its EVs â Ars Technica).
Itâs hardly surprising that leaders of the Tesla autonomy team, notably Andrej Karpathy, have abandoned ship. And that thereâs a growing push to ban FSD.
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My money still on Tesla for a generalized autonomy stack. Maybe they do incorporate other sensors maybe not, but I will not judge his engineering team on how I feel about one man.
Muskâs latest email to Twitter employees demanding âextremely hardcoreâ employees. With âlong hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.â Basically, hardcore or youâre fired.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/16/tech/elon-musk-email-ultimatum-twitter/index.html
Iâd personally hit the âno thanksâ button and take the three months severance. Iâm not averse to exceptional performance, I just donât see it as âa passing gradeâ at work. Last time I did exceptionally well I was rewarded with trips to Napa Valley, Vegas, large bonus, and a raise. Iâll take that over a nod in the hallway and a âyou passedâ from management.
Oh and this is funny - Musk firing engineers for correcting him when he tweets incorrect info.
But then he says this:
âthose writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway.â
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Sounds like a version of Lumon the company on the show Severance! 
If you read between the lines, many tech CEOs are taking the same position - that days of living large are gone - the days of a kombucha bar on every floor are limited. Musk just takes an in-your-face approach that many find less than appealing. In the end, he gave the employees a choice - letâs work hard together or seek employment elsewhere. Of course they could just walk and take a job at Intel. Nope Intel is currently laying off ~10,000, but thatâs OK Intel is old school. How about Meta? Nope, theyâre laying off ~11,000. Netflix, Microsoft, Snap, Amazon, all laying off employees. But, hey thereâs always Google, right? Probably notâŠ
Google recently slashed the budget for employee travel and entertainment after reporting weaker-than-expected earnings. Further, Sundar Pichai asked employees to help âcreate a culture that is more mission-focused, more focused on our products, more customer focused. We should think about how we can minimize distractions and really raise the bar on both product excellence and productivity.â Pichai also said (during a recent all-hands meeting) - âI remember when Google was small and scrappy. We shouldnât always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working start-up and people may be having fun and it shouldnât always equate to money.â
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I personally donât see âwork 12-14 hours days and sleep under your deskâ hidden between the lines of âno more kombucha barâ and âreduced travelâ. But my eyes are getting a bit old so I could be wrong.
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When I hired on to fruit company in the mid 80âs a popular shirt among the employees was â90 hours a week and loving itâ. Then the profit margins rose, and the hiring was out of control. And expectations of massages, afternoons at the movies, carrot juice, quarter end trips to places like Vail (to clear out the excess budget $$) eventually hit reality.
DS is at company named after big number. His reports on employees who went home to foreign country to âworkâ during the pandemic - and the actual lack of work they did, he talks about teams where it take a group of 5 two weeks to do what DS proved can be done in a day.
Tech is going to clean out the bench warmers.
Life wil continue
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I think that once Google starts pruning we will be approaching bottom on the layoffs, and pressure is mountingâŠ
https://www.reuters.com/technology/hedge-fund-tci-says-alphabet-cost-base-too-high-2022-11-15/
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One companyâs bad news may be another companyâs good news.
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