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Dumb Elon strikes again.
According to a report by The Washington Post, Elon Musk overruled a significant number of Tesla engineers who warned him that switching to a visual-only system would be problematic and possibly unsafe due to its high risk². Despite their warnings, Musk was unconvinced and overruled his engineers. In May 2021, Tesla announced it was eliminating radar on new cars and soon after began disabling radar in cars already on the road³. This resulted in an uptick in crashes, near misses, and other embarrassing mistakes by Tesla vehicles suddenly deprived of a critical sensor².
Source: Conversation with Bing, 6/15/2023
(1) Elon Musk Overruled Tesla Engineers Who Said Removing Radar … – InsideEVs. https://insideevs.com/news/658439/elon-musk-overruled-tesla-autopilot-engineers-radar-removal/.
(2) How Elon Musk knocked Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ off course. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/19/elon-musk-tesla-driving/.
(3) Musk Overruled Tesla Engineers, And Now They Are In Serious … – Medium. https://medium.com/predict/musk-overruled-tesla-engineers-and-now-they-are-in-serious-trouble-2e37269e387a.
(4) Tesla CEO Elon Musk overruled engineers who were against removing …. https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/electric-vehicles/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-overruled-engineers-who-were-against-removing-radars-41679568912670.html.
Possums
Umwelt
In 1909, the biologist Jakob von Uexküll noted that every animal exists in its own unique perceptual world — a smorgasbord of sights, smells, sounds and textures that it can sense but that other species might not. These stimuli defined what von Uexküll called the Umwelt — an animal’s bespoke sliver of reality. A tick’s Umwelt is limited to the touch of hair, the odor that emanates from skin and the heat of warm blood. A human’s Umwelt is far wider but doesn’t include the electric fields that sharks and platypuses are privy to, the infrared radiation that rattlesnakes and vampire bats track or the ultraviolet light that most sighted animals can see.
The Umwelt concept is one of the most profound and beautiful in biology. It tells us that the all-encompassing nature of our subjective experience is an illusion, and that we sense just a small fraction of what there is to sense. It hints at flickers of the magnificent in the mundane, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. And it is almost antidramatic: It reveals that frogs, snakes, ticks and other animals can be doing extraordinary things even when they seem to be doing nothing at all.
~ Ed Yong, NY Times Opinion, 6-21-22
Seriously, Vic?
Rip John romita sr
Wed, June 14, 2022
June 13, 2023 23:24:25
G’nite.
#bedtime #cpap #cryptidfamily #cryptid #doodle
Two deer and a runaway bunny! #backyardzoo #deer #bunny #nightvision https://www.instagram.com/p/CtZFV03OeeY/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
World war II ended about 75 years ago, now. (Panel is about 25 years old) https://www.instagram.com/p/CtXd8KvsgDj/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Grapes are coming in
June 10, 2023
This young lady arranged the pillows herself to make a little chaise lounge. I think it turned out pretty well, she seems quite comfy.
#misspearl
#catsofinstagram #tabbycatsofinstagram #caturday #stripedcatsofinstagram #honkshew
June 9, 2023
It was a rare occasion when the whole family gathered for an outing. My father-in-law, a mothman of considerable stature and renown, had flown over from his house up the street to join us. He was eager to see his children, who adored him and his stories of adventure and mystery. We took his wife the jackelope, who was due for a checkup, to the vet. She was healthy and happy, and the vet complimented us on her shiny fur and antlers.
Dinner tonight was Mermaid homemade Ramen and Blueberry pie, much to our great pleasure. Finished the night with an episode of Vera to digest with.
#mothman #cryptidfamily #jume092023 #vera