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Re:AI Podcast: Elon Musk on Tesla Autopilot [video] by oska on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:22PM (#19656694)
You received a warning a month ago about your account being a single-issue one (anti-Tesla/Musk). [1] And yet the majority of your comments since then have continued to be under Tesla submissions and here you are again, making libelous statements against a respected AI researcher simply because he interviewed Elon Musk.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381462

Re:AI Podcast: Elon Musk on Tesla Autopilot [video] by Animats on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:35PM (#19657452)
I'm more into self-driving, which I used to work on, than Tesla. I'm also critical of Uber, Cruise, and some of the minor players. Basically, all the guys who think you just tie machine learning to some cameras and train.

Self-driving is fundamentally unsafe unless you do a height profile of the road ahead. That's step one. Right now, LIDAR-based systems can do that reliably, while camera-based systems cannot.

If you have to recognize obstacles to avoid them, sometimes you'll miss one. Once you know where you physically can drive, you get to work on where you should drive. And what the other road users are doing. The proper role of machine learning here is to help classify other road users and predict their behavior.

"Big rise or drop in road ahead" plus "classifier has no idea what this is" has to mean "Stop".

Re:AI Podcast: Elon Musk on Tesla Autopilot [video] by djanogo on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:48PM (#19656236)
Getting "paid under the table" might too much of an accusation, but Musk usually only accepts interviews from people who like him.