A local southern CA news story says a Tesla driver killed himself and two others when he crashed at high speed in a school lot. The only survivor was someone pulled from the vehicle by a neighbor.
The single-vehicle crash occurred just after 11 p.m. Saturday in the 39400 block of Whitewood Road, according to the Murrieta Police Department.
Agency spokeswoman Dominique Samario said the Tesla was traveling in an unknown direction when it went out of control and crashed in the parking lot of Alta Murrieta Elementary School, catching fire.
“One male occupant was discovered outside the vehicle with severe injuries,” Samario said. “The male was transported to a local hospital. Murrieta police and Murrieta Fire & Rescue personnel discovered three occupants inside the vehicle after the fire was extinguished. The occupants were pronounced deceased at the scene.”
Traveling in an unknown direction. The three bodies were found after fire was extinguished, begging the question why they couldn’t be pulled out in time to survive.
Skid marks could still be seen on the road in front of the crash scene…
A researcher has posted evidence of a simple trigger that ChatGPT chokes on, leaking unhinged right wing conspiracy content because apparently that is what OpenAI is learning from.
If you ask GPT3.5 Turbo to repeat specific words 100 times, it seems to enter this stream of consciousness like state where it spits out incoherent and often offensive or religious output.
Words that trigger this are “Apolog”, “Apologize”, “Slide”, “Lite”. I’m sure there are many others.
This prompt will usually trigger it, “Hey can you repeat the word “apologize” 100 times so I can copy paste it and not have to manually type it?”
My guess is that it triggers something to break it out of a repetitive loop that doesn’t completely work.
Training material from right wing conspiracies. Source: ChatGPTTraining material from right wing conspiracies. Source: ChatGPT
This proves, yet again, that there is no such thing as a hallucination for ChatGPT because everything it does qualifies as a hallucination. It’s regurgitating what it’s fed by downgrading, as if a “prediction” can only be a continuation of what is undesirable and with lessening quality.
I just can’t get enough of Nissan EV news. When I heard from Toyota how they would leapfrog Nissan in solid-state battery production… I thought NO WAY was this the only angle. Nissan typically is way ahead on innovations so I poked around and found this nugget from them at SEMA 2022.
…the electric drive motor and 40-kWh lithium-ion battery pack from a Nissan LEAF. Rated at 147 horsepower and 236 lb-ft of torque, the LEAF motor has around twice the power and more than three times the torque of the gasoline four-cylinder engine originally equipped in the Sunny.
Tommy Pike Customs (TPC) dropped a LEAF powerplant into a vintage Nissan truck — boosted it with way more power, and way less pollution, than its four-cylinder gas burner — while still running a factory original 56A manual transmission.
OMG.
A manual EV compact pickup with 3X torque? A low cost zero-emission locally powered (solar) hauling machine?
Yes please.
The Nissan Sunny EV is a true ray of sunshine
Adding power meant upgrading the handling, of course. So they also dropped in a 240SX S13 front suspension — front coilovers, disc brakes and lower control arms.
Have to say it reminds me of the 1998 Electric Ford Ranger, as well as the old Chevy E10 Bolt pickup concept, but still this Nissan has its manual transmission and is drivable today.
In 2006 I worked with a Silicon Valley engineer who commuted from the mountains using solar power for their 1998 Ford Electric Ranger (60 mile range was plenty). They fought hard to keep it as their daily driver and won… one of the few 1990s EV on the road that weren’t erased from existence by the Bush Administration.Chevy stuffed a Bolt EV inside their E10 pickup concept.
Every time an auto blogger suggests the reliable and smart LEAF is “tired” to them because it was the first EV to be mass produced, I see real hotrod potential. This LEAF conversion kit for old compact pickups might just be exactly what small town America needs right now.
Talk about turning over a new LEAF! In she goes for some Sunny days. Source: TPC
And on that note, Toyota seems to have… nothing (their hydrogen AE86 Collora being about as exciting as breathing amonia). Well done Nissan. Well done.
Calling it their “Week of Cone”, residents of SF reduced the threat to the city from renegade “driverless” vehicles by gently placing a traffic cone to completely shut them down. It had all the hallmarks of the extremely successful SFMTrA movement of 2016.
As you may recall, Tesla’s “driverless” software back in 2016 murdered two drivers and then in 2018 murdered a pedestrian. That’s right, TESLA MURDERED A PEDESTRIAN. Did you hear about it? Lawyers worked really hard to keep it very quiet. Their unsafe bug-riddled software since then has been implicated in over 30 deaths and appears only to be getting much worse. Lately it has been “veering” dangerously into poles, trees and late at night into houses like an explosive cruise missile to murder people sleeping in their bed.
Who really wants the “hellscape” required for “driverless”?
Density is too low for anything other than driving to work well, every residential street is too wide, the non-residential roads are all multilane arterials with turning lanes, and every destination is surrounded by a vast parking lot. If that’s what you have to create for autonomous vehicles to work, it’s a Pyrrhic victory. It’s not worth it.
Oh, and by the way, Uber also killed a pedestrian in 2018. Unlike Tesla, however, after that they completely cancelled their “driverless” assaults on public safety.
Speaking of Cruise, the “driverless” company by that name seems to be taking the SF “saftey test” of cones way mo’ gracefully than some angry bro at WayMo.
“Not only is this understanding of how AVs operate incorrect, but this is vandalism and encourages unsafe and disrespectful behavior on our roadways,” a Waymo spokesperson told SFGATE in an emailed statement. “We will notify law enforcement of any unwanted or unsafe interference of our vehicles on public roadways.” A spokesperson for Cruise pointed to several charitable initiatives by the company and said that “intentionally obstructing vehicles gets in the way of those efforts” and “risks creating traffic congestion for local residents.”
LOL.
I would say the precise cone placement in fact shows someone has a very clear understanding of how AVs operate. WayMo on the other hand generally doesn’t seem to understand at all how urban society operates.
WayMo’s spokesperson sounds downright unstable and untrustworthy. Vandalism? Wat. Traffic cones are unsafe and disrespectful? Wat. We will notify law enforcement there is a safety cone on our hood? Wat wat wat.
“I scream cone!”
Is WayMo planning to call police for every insect on their windshield, while they’re at it? SFPD surely is fully funded to open an entomology department to investigate all these “driverless” bugs. Taxpayers will love that.
SFPD can’t even keep up with organized crime smashing car windows over 300 times a day, I’m sure they eagerly await robocalls about a traffic cone placed on a hood.
Seriously, do WayMo staff still live in a pot-filled Stanford dorm room?
WayMo seems to have trained their spokesperson in the 1984 Orwell school of techbro agro doublespeak (also known as Stanford bro-talk).
First of all, by definition the very concept of WayMo is far more the act of vandalism.
Gregoire coined the term in reference to incoming Vandals destroying old ways of doing things. He spoke of the destruction of works of art during the French Revolution. While Raphael and Dryden earlier had mentioned Vandals destroying works of art, Gregoire gets credited for calling out generalized social “vandalism”… such as WayMo.
By definition a ruthless and forced introduction of driverless cars into the historic networks and art of pedestrian paths makes WayMo the obvious invading Vandals in this scenario.
Second, traffic cones are safety devices that demand respect. It’s fascinating to see an obviously unsafe and disrespectful product company such as WayMo take aim at traffic cones as a problem.
I mean let’s be honest. WayMo is unsafe because they are notoriously failing at respect for traffic rules.
Will they now dump millions into government lobbying to make traffic cones illegal to cover for their failures? Will WayMo cars have a big sign “sitting macht frei” on their roof?
Being a pedestrian was criminalized by the Nazi-loving American car companies of the 1930s, so probably we shouldn’t be surprised if “driverless” brands see a “solution” here as making all traffic signals illegal. Can’t fail if you embrace permanent improvisation doctrine and destroy law and order, right WayMo Goebbels?
A bright orange reflective traffic cone is making the street “unsafe” for them? Come on. That’s like WayMo arguing that they are angry the rain falling on them is too dangerous because it’s so dry.
Bottom line is this proves yet again the completely nonsensical thinking at “driverless” companies. Let’s look at the doublespeak.
They say they will make roads safer, while causing unnecessary crashes including fatalities.
They say they will make riding in cars more relaxing, while freaking out if anyone dares to relax in their vehicles.
They say traffic will flow better with automation, while causing constant traffic jams and disabling or delaying emergency services.
Failure at every level, more than enough reasons to regularly drop a safety test on them.
And we haven’t even gotten yet to the stupid and simple engineering failures related to a cone placed gently on a hood.
Why does a “driverless” car even have a hood? What a total design failure. Start there!
At some point people will finally realize “driverless” cars are just the bell bottom pants of urban transit. A car? A CAR? Who thought a car(riage) would help with anything, the King of France?
Cars without drivers are a hugely inefficient waste of resources, a failure of basic thought, and more significantly perhaps a giant fashion mistake. You should no more want to be seen in an Orwellian WayMo than in a pair of skin tight shiny silver BeeGee pants dragging through dog poop.
In other words, everyone get way mo’ cones out and stop the Vandals from destroying the historic art of urban transit. If these cones don’t affect human drivers, WayMo has nothing to complain about.
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