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Re:Tesla Semi by _Codemonkeyism on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:57AM (#15720634)
I'd say someone who buys robots and operates them manually by men and claims "air resistance" is the biggest challenge in robotics because they should move so fast you can't see them, looks to me as not very sophisticated. But I don't operate robots.
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Re:Tesla Semi by _Codemonkeyism on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:21AM (#15728369)
"It's like if you can see the robot move, it's too slow. We should be caring about air friction like things moving so fast. You should need a strobe light to see it"

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4122890-tesla-approaches-te...

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Re:Tesla Semi by Aron on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:47AM (#15732791)
He wasn't saying that air resistance is currently a problem. The current problem is that the robots don't move fast enough for air resistance to be a problem. He's basically pushing the question 'Going faster is obviously good. What happens if we go really really fast?'
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