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Re:Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality by gwbas1c on Friday May 07, 2021 @11:56AM (#27077223)
One of the biases in Hacker News is that comments like yours tend to get downvoted.

Some of my more reserved comments get downvoted, and then flooded with replies about 360 vision and cars never getting sleepy.

IMO: Most of the autonomous driving tech will evolve to be driver assistance and safety tech in the upcoming decade. I still believe we'll get autonomous driving someday, but not until we have a few more AI breakthroughs.

Until then, "Autonomous driving" will be like "Duke Nukem Forever."

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Re:Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality by detaro on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:05PM (#27077339)
... he comments under the top comment.

Skepticism of self-driving tech and "AI" in general is a very popular position here.

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Re:Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality by jeffreyrogers on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:21PM (#27077581)
My most upvoted comments on HN[0] are the ones that pick on some hyped up technology. HN loves to be "contrarian" (in quotes because this contrarianism is actually the mainstream position).

[0]: I don't think this is good, it's just a statement of fact.

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Re:Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality by bluGill on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:42PM (#27077857)
It has been increasing. 5 years ago we were more hopeful. However the needed parts have not delivered and so we are rightly looking harder.
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Re:Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality by gwbas1c on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:16PM (#27080380)
5 years ago self-driving cars looked like technologists were letting their imagination run away.

There's always "something" that technologist think is right around the corner, until they realize that the hard problems are harder than they anticipated.

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Re:Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality by dehrmann on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:34PM (#27077765)
To be fair, Autopilot is about as good as Duke Nukem Forever.
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Re:Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality by aeternum on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:08PM (#27077382)
This is because OP's comment is simply an appeal to authority without any direct evidence or reasoning. Listen to the experts. This is highly counter to the hacker ethos, and personally, I'm disappointed to see it as a top comment on HN.
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