News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment. Parent comment

Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by palata on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:42PM (#38033073)
You do realize that the energy needed to move an object (say a car an its passenger) is related to the mass of the said object, right?

> the energy is negligble

What does that even mean?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by alooPotato on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:46PM (#38033454)
yes i understand that. i mean its negligible in terms of cost relative to the cost of a trip (like a public transit fare).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deploy... by palata on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:56AM (#38036557)
Right. From my point of view, you answered to my comment about energy by saying "it's negligible", but you apparently meant "it's negligible in a metric different than the one of the post I am answering to, but I won't mention it". I think that's why I got confused :-).
[ Parent | on HN ]