I'll show you the D next week – billionaire space baron Elon Musk Elon Musk has been having some fun on Twitter: he posted a cryptic teaser about something new that will emerge from Tesla on October 9 at the firm's design studio in Hawthorne, California. About time to unveil the D and something else pic.twitter.com/qp23yi59i6 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 2, 2014 So now the interwebs …
>> Such a system would be relatively easy to put in place he claimed, saying all you'd need would be a radar system, cameras with image recognition, and long-range ultrasonics.
Thats a particularly clueless statement. The items he listed are all just sensors. They don't make decisions any more than your ears or nose do.
He forgot the part that actually takes that collected data and makes good safe decisons based on it, and THATS the difficult bit that takes all the time/money/development effort you've got and more.
"Thats a particularly clueless statement."
... a number of things I could and will, at the drop of any hat you choose, say about Mr Musk. But to call someone who has already done and achieved what he has already done and achieved 'clueless' is not one I can ever see or hear myself saying.
You're right to do so is, of course, yours. Sigh...
Unless the ultrasonic waveform includes some form of CDMA, because it is essentially a single channel that everyone would share, it simply will not scale.
Short range sensors for parking work, because they're short range.
Also, it's not clear that barking out high power ultrasonics is something that should be permitted. All kinds of bad things might happen. There should be an environmental impact study on this.
Tesla Dirigible would be amazing. Imagine if he managed to get a fleet of solar-powered dirigibles with proper helium storage and recapture tech (to minimize losses), including the air compression and condenser tech for ballast control. Wrap it all up, automate it, bring it into the 21st century.
Done right, he could revolutionize shipping. Screw multirotor drones; dirigible delivery! (At least from pad to regional/local depot.)
Hmm, D? Dookie? Dog? Distance? Dilettante? Dynamo? DC? Duck? Dahlia? Direction? Dealing? Deception? Dénouement?
Meh, more stock price manipulation to make up for his overpriced gaff a little bit ago.
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