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1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Read that yesterday, bonkers.

 

"The group is likely inspired by asexual Japanese artist Mao Sugiyama who had his penis and testicles surgically removed nine years ago, aged 23, to serve as a meal to five guests at an exclusive banquet."

Did meat and two veg get lost in translation.

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Apparently loads of Japanese men are celibate now, there's whole areas of Tokyo where they live and just play computer games. Imagine all those Japanese birds just absolutely fucking RIPE.

 

I'd like to parachute in, dressed as General Patton, cigar in mouth, trousers down, 'say hello to my little friend'.

 

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6 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Apparently loads of Japanese men are celibate now, there's whole areas of Tokyo where they live and just play computer games. Imagine all those Japanese birds just absolutely fucking RIPE.

 

I'd like to parachute in, dressed as General Patton, cigar in mouth, trousers down, 'say hello to my little friend'.

 

Japanese woman are ace.

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Shouldnt laugh, no seriously especially when musk in particular keeps trumpeting this 'fully autonomous driving.' No doubt, one day this will be perfected but seems very dodgey to me the fact that beta testing is done by the end user and not more strictly controlled.

 

A Tesla Model 3 car in 'Full Self-Driving' mode has been captured colliding with a bike lane barrier post, in a potential setback for Elon Musk's firm. 

The footage was captured during a drive in downtown San Jose, California, by a YouTuber who goes by the name AI Addict, and provides the first recorded evidence that Full Self-Driving, or FSD, has been directly responsible for an accident.

The latest version of the Tesla's self-driving software, FSD Beta version 10.10, can be seen veering the Model 3 into the bollard separating a bike lane from the road.

Even though the driver is hitting the brakes and furiously spins the steering wheel away from the obstacle, the AI-powered FSD system hits the bollard with a big thud. 

Worryingly, at other points in the video the Model 3 appears to run a red light and attempts to go down a railroad track and later a tram lane because of the software. 

The video comes shortly after Tesla was forced to recall nearly 54,000 cars and SUVs this month because their full self-driving software was letting them pass stop signs.

AI Addict posted the nine-minute video of the drive to YouTube on February 5. The crash takes place at around the three-and-a-half minutes mark.  

The YouTuber appears to be in the front seat behind the wheel, accompanied by a passenger in the back seat.  

'S**t, we hit that!' AI Addict can be heard saying. 'I hit the brakes to the floor!' 

The passenger says: 'I can't believe the car didn't stop'. 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed only last month that the FSD Beta system had never had an accident, but the new footage offers proof that this is no longer the case. 

In most of AI Addict's video, the driver can be seen merely touching the wheel rather than holding it, allowing the autonomous technology to control the wheel's movements to follow a pre-defined route on a map. 

FSD is capable of level 2 autonomy. This means the system can control the speed and direction of the car, allowing the driver to take their hands off temporarily, but they have to monitor the road at all times and be ready to take over. 

Moments prior to the crash, the driver can be seen letting the wheel rotate through his hands too far to the right before noticing the post and turning it quickly to the left – but it's too late. 

Although the crash wasn't serious, the bollard, which was nearly knocked cleanly to the ground, left paint on the front bumper.

It's possible the system was not aware that a section was cordoned off for the bike lane. MailOnline has contacted Tesla for comment. 

The Model 3 seems to have a problem detecting the green bike lane barrier posts, which are dotted all over downtown San Jose, throughout much of the video, often driving towards them at several points. 

The video appears to highlight other deficiencies in FSD, which is in beta and therefore set to improve reported faults before a wide rollout. 

At another point in the video, the car's AI is trying to turn left onto a busy main road even though a truck is oncoming.

AI Addict can be heard saying: 'Here comes a truck and it's creeping forward and I don't like this. Holy f.... OK.'

At other points, FSD seems to do a good job of 'patiently' waiting for pedestrians to cross the road and keeping clear of other cars. 

Tesla has been releasing new software updates to its FSD Beta program – the latest being version 10.10, released earlier this month.

Towards the end of last year, Tesla said that it almost had 60,000 owners in the FSD Beta program, which is only available to select Tesla owners picked by the company and drivers with high safety scores of 100 out of 100.

However, one investor revealed to Electrek last October that he had only a safety score of 37 out of 100 and was still using FSD Beta. 

These safety score are decided by drivers giving the firm permission to monitor their driving using in-car software.  

Tesla warns that drivers using the systems must be ready to intervene at all times, as per any Level 2 autonomous driving system. 

FSD is an upgrade package to Autopilot, the company's suite of of advanced driver-assistance system features, which has had a controversial and often fatal history.

So far 12 fatalities involving Tesla's Autopilot have been verified, along with a load of non-fatal crashes. 

Despite Musk's assertion in January of FSD Beta's impeccable record, the US government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) received its first complaint in November 2021 that FSD caused a crash from a Tesla driver.

The incident in Brea, California involved a Tesla Model Y forcing itself into the incorrect lane and being hit by another vehicle, according to AP.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-traffic-9c3d3c75d9c668dbb1a8cdbbe883ff88

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10488759/Tesla-car-Self-Driving-mode-hits-bollard-camera.html

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11 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Self driving cars will never work in a month of sundays, just too many variables, the only way they'd work is if roads were like train tracks with signals and areas where people are prevented from walking.

Yes, good point about all the roads needing to be the same. Maybe the thing would work and only be able to be activated on UK motorways and dual carriageways with their defined lane and edge of carriage way markings?

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7 minutes ago, Strontium said:

People like to joke about accidents involving these self-driving vehicles, but it is an absolute fact that the accident rate in them is vastly lower mile for mile than it is for manually operated ones.

That's because there's only about five, that's like saying I'm better at darts than Abu Hamza. 

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2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Yeah but if they've only done about five miles it's meaningless. Mile for mile a space shuttle doesn't crash as much as a jumbo jet. 

 

 

2 million miles in California alone, as of February 2021.

 

2 million, 5. Basically the same.

 

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5 million miles? All autonomous driving? All on the same types of road? I remain to be convinced.

 

Interesting fact, where airports have fully functioning ILS, most airliners land autonomously with the pilots monitoring the approach and ready to intervene if things look wrong. The exception being where weather conditions are declared too extreme by the pilots who them fly them in by the seat of their pants.

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On 08/02/2022 at 19:29, Section_31 said:

Apparently loads of Japanese men are celibate now, there's whole areas of Tokyo where they live and just play computer games. Imagine all those Japanese birds just absolutely fucking RIPE.

 

I'd like to parachute in, dressed as General Patton, cigar in mouth, trousers down, 'say hello to my little friend'.

 

They are frustrated at not being able to see vaginas because they are always obscured by pixels.

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