Ex-Tesla owner here. My car had sensors in the bumper, which worked great. Until one day they didn't—only to find out that they were deactivated through an OTA update without notice and no rollback option.

This was before the "I bought this before..." rhetoric.

People will die because of this.

it’s not a comparison to tesla self driving though it only compares to their old lane keeping assist system (autopilot). and seeing whirly sensors is not necessarily a good way to determine what’s necessary!

I clicked the video and was shocked when the host spoke Swedish (my native language). I didn’t even know that multiple audio tracks were a thing on YouTube, and I was definitely not ready for people to use it with AI generate translations and voice.

I love the way they cut the foam wall to smash like a cartoon explosion 🤣💥

@gruen.us I don't know the details of that, but such a bad idea to make some cars a little worse so the features are consistent across all cars.

@MrHenko Wow, I'm clicking through a few of the other languages. No idea if the translation is any good but it sure sounds believable.

Let the video record show a LOT worse for children playing in the rain.

Please note that I'm currently in a very AI sceptic phase, so that might color my opinion here. With that said, I think it's interesting that it works, kind of, but the uncanny valley is definitely there, both in terms of the words and the inflection of the voice. I file it in my brain under "cool, but what's the point".

@MrHenko Yeah, I’m an AI optimist but I don’t actually like generated voices. It feels wrong. That’s why I built the audio narration feature in Micro.blog so people could add their own real voices. Just makes it more human and personal.

@manton This video has a ton of obvious issues. This what would have probably happened but they haven't tried it.

Road safety depends largely on infrastructure, not technical capabilities of vehicles. Many forward thinking municipalities are realizing that, but fixing it requires time (decades) and everyone's participation to change things for the better. Car-centric culture has to be replaced by multimodal transportation, where everybody wins, not just car owners (read: car manufacturers).

Side note, today I showed the video to a Turkish friend and he agreed that the Swedish version sounded very fake. (He has lived in Sweden for 20+ years and speaks fluent Swedish.) However, when we listened to the Turkish version - which sounded fine to me since I don’t speak a word of Turkish - he said that had he not already known that there was AI involved he wouldn’t have thought that there was anything weird about the voice.

Maybe different languages are more or less complex for an AI to imitate, or maybe there’s more training data available for Turkish than Swedish, or a combination of the two.