Love Woz but this is a stupid take. FSD is the best of the best and has improved dramatically the last few months.
There’s a summary at the top of the article if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, but please don’t write “stupid take” in response to an editor’s headline and expect people to appreciate your input.
Musk calling Wozniak a loser on shitter in 3, 2, 1…
Cars should not have software updates
They should but I’ll go one further. Liability should be 100% with the auto manufacturers and car insurance should disappear or be drastically reduced assuming maintenance warranties are met. If I’m buying a FSD car I don’t want any liabilities when it comes to safety.
This is why technically software is a liability. The less code you need, the better, since every line of code is a potential vulnerability and something to maintain, update, etc.
Speak for yourself. I think that’s one of the things Tesla got right. Cars shouldn’t have features locked behind software updates though.
Lol like Tesla was the first car to update software.
I mean… I still need to go into the dealer to update my 2021 Toyota software. And they certainly don’t provide updates for anything other than safety related issues.
…so is apple
I’m not into Apple, but I’m into Woz, and if he said it, it’s true.
And he’s right. The Autopilot has not improved for the last 5 or so years. It rather has gotten worse. Phantom brakes are a nightmare and truly dangerous, the wind shield wiper is highly erratic and the lane departure warning is often just plain wrong and mostly annoying.
I really regret buying this car. And that is not even counting the disastrous image issues caused by the wannabe-Göbbels that owns the company.
You didn’t read the article but at least you had better input than the guy who just said “stupid take fsd is great”.
Just because I criticized a different software aspect than Woz makes you believe that I didn’t read the article?
Sell it.
There is no one to sell it to.
It’s nice of you to assume that everyone is as rich as all these virtue signalling celebrities. Yes musk is a piece of shit, no I’m not buying another one until they torpedo his ass, yes autopilot is a scam. But I also happen to like the car, it suits our lifestyle the best, it has a five star safety rating and I’m not a Nazi just because I bought a certain kind of car a couple of years ago. Do what you want to the dealers, go after the corporate people, but leave the innocent consumers alone. None of us asked for this shit either.
The Woz has spoken. Ditch Tesla cars and buy something that isn’t owned by a nazi gremlin.
Would literally buy an electric VW Beetle at this point for the lulz
In Woz we trust (even if we don’t buy from Apple)
Woz is one of the first people who would tell you not to buy apple. He loves to tinker
I imagine he still owns plenty of Apple stock so he might tell you to buy Apple just because of that lol.
Woz nearly went broke giving away his options when Jobs fucked a bunch of his friends over on their IPO, and has turned down so many offers in his life that would have made him even richer because he just doesn’t care, he wants to tinker and share tech with other nerds.
Nah, he’s set for life. Doesn’t care much about money.
He’s a real nerd’s nerd.
Telsa stopped providing the data needed to be included in the J.D. Power reliability rankings after they went from near the top to 2nd to last.
“Where to find the time of day changes depending on what [driving] mode you’re in,” he said. “The buttons that go through your six favorite channels don’t work if it’s satellite radio channels. It takes so many tries to hit one button in your jiggly car, and it just doesn’t work.”
Well, Woz. You’re famous for doing a universal control panel for another prominent piece of consumer electronics and figuring out how to interface it to lots of different brands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_remote
In 1987, the first programmable universal remote control was released. It was called the “CORE” and was created by CL 9, a startup founded by Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple I and Apple II computers.[2]
All you had to do then was to reverse-engineer the infrared protocols used to communicate with the televisions.
I bet that it’s probably possible to figure out a way to have a third-party control panel interface with various auto UIs. Like, build a universal interface, and then just design mounting hardware on a per-car basis? Use Android Auto or CarPlay, OBD-II, and such?
Can Android Auto do climate control?
kagis
Sounds like it doesn’t, but may start being able to do so:
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-auto-climate-controls-3533161/
Android Auto could be about to turn up the heat (and AC) on car comfort
Climate control may finally be coming to Google’s in-car interface.
Android phones don’t have physical buttons for car features. But…that’s not a physical limitation. Just is a result of reusing a phone as a car panel.
So instead of having third-party car computers being the province of a few hobbyist hardware hackers, there’s an out-of-box solution for everyone? Make the “Wozpanel” or whatever that I just mount in my car? Stick physical buttons on it? Maybe have a case and faceplate that wraps it to match interiors?
There’s also Android Automotive that can do that (separate from Android Auto).
The reason Tesla doesn’t use that, is because they want to control what you experience. There’s a reason you can’t use your own music provider.
Gettem woz
