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  1. Jan 2026
    1. Tesla Cybertruck na Polskiej Wsi: Czy FSD nas zabije?
      • Adaptability to Local Conditions: The Cybertruck's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system performed surprisingly well on Polish rural roads, even those covered in snow without visible lane markings [00:01:40]. It uses its cameras to identify the edges of the road and navigate obstacles effectively [00:02:13].
      • Vision-Only Technology: The vehicle relies entirely on eight cameras and neural networks trained on data from other Tesla drivers [00:13:47]. It does not use radar or LiDAR sensors [00:14:22].
      • Urban Driving & Safety: In Warsaw, the car successfully managed roundabouts, traffic lights, and stop signs. It proactively yields to pedestrians and cyclists [00:04:59], [00:11:02]. The car also features a 360-degree awareness that reacts faster than a human driver in emergency situations [00:12:02].
      • Driver Monitoring: The system requires the driver to remain attentive. An internal camera monitors the driver's gaze; if the driver looks at a phone or away from the road, the car issues an immediate warning [00:06:02].
      • Handling Tight Spaces: The truck navigated very narrow underground parking lots without hitting curbs or pillars, even coming to an automatic stop when a collision was imminent [00:09:14]. It also features an autonomous parking function that handles tight spots flawlessly [00:13:20].
      • Current Limitations:
        • Lack of European Maps: Since the Cybertruck is not officially sold in Europe, it lacks native maps, meaning users cannot simply enter a destination for the car to navigate to automatically [00:01:09].
        • Necessary Interventions: The driver occasionally had to take over, particularly during complex left turns or when the car misidentified which exit to take at a roundabout [00:05:51], [00:12:08].
      • Performance in Low Visibility: The FSD system remained functional and reliable during nighttime driving and in heavy fog, often "seeing" the road better than the human eye due to its trained neural networks [00:15:37].
  2. Dec 2022
    1. If I were asked to condense the whole of the present century into one mental picture I would pick a familiar everyday sight: a man in a motor car, driving along a concrete highway to some unknown destination … I think that the 20th century reaches almost its purest expression on the highway. Here we see, all too clearly, the speed and violence of our age, its strange love affair with the machine and, conceivably, with its own death and destruction.

      Cars weirdly coffin-shaped; thinking about the death of distance, the impatience between points, and the necessity to kill intervening 'dead' time spent in transit

  3. Feb 2021
    1. it might be killing three times the number of cyclists over a million rides than another model

      Fair enough. But then we should also make the counter-argument...how many motorists did the self-driving car save in the same period?

      I know that this is a tricky ethical scenario and I'm not trivialising it, but these arguments are overly simplistic and one-sided.

  4. May 2020
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  8. Feb 2017
    1. The biggest challenge in building an autonomous vehicle is giving the car the ability to see the world. It requires a thorough understanding of lidar, the radar-like system of lasers that creates the digital map each car needs to navigate the world safely and competently.

      I was thinking about this the other day...

  9. Sep 2016