Really?

Guy whose cars run into stopped fire trucks thinks he’s an expert on computer vision.
- Someone died because one of those cars thought the broadside of a white semi trailer was the sky and drove under it
  
  I thought it mistook the semi that was crossing a divided highway as an overpass and attempted to drive under it?
  
  This is exactly how Ed Truck died. His capa was detated from his head.
- But was it a "stealthy" fire truck??
  
  Yes, but the car only had enough low-light cameras but not enough rudimentary AI
- Speaking of fire trucks has anyone here ever read the emergency response procedures for teslas in severe accidents? When I was a volunteer we gave it a look over.
  If I remember right, Depending on the model they recommend up to 8,000 gallons (~30k liters) to keep an overheating battery's temp stable in case of fire or exposure to high heat. I'll link the resource page here.
  Our engine holds 700 gallons (5.2k liters) and the typical tanker in our area holds 2,000 (7.5k liters)
  That's a house fire level response for a single electric vehicle. Just getting that much water moved to a scene would be challenging. We have tankers, but how many city departments can move that much water? You don't see hydrants on highways. And foam is not effective like it is for normal car fires. The future will be interesting for firefighters.
  
  I found a link on how the Austrian fire workeres handle this. The fire is extinguished first, then the remainders of the car are put into a special roll-off container (Abrollbehälter, AB) and driven to a gravel pit, where the container will be flooded with 21000 litres of water.
  https://www.feuerwehrmagazin.de/nachrichten/news/elektroauto-in-flammen-einsatz-fuer-den-abrollbehaelter-e-brand-93315
  
  30,000 liters is 30m^3, which is a back yard swimming pool full of water.
- It is especially important to understand that Tesla's struggles with navigation are entirely a result of Elon refusing to equip them with LiDAR. This isn't some "The tech is really new and really complicated and we're still figuring it out" problem. There is a very good solution to most collision avoidance scenarios, but Elon refuses to let them use it because he's an idiot.
- They also sometimes lock people inside and burn them to death.
  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/terrified-friends-burned-death-tesla-34087725

For those doing the maths at home:
An F35 who obligingly flies top-towards-you (not exactly something you can do, but hey, maybe they're turning) is all of 10m tall.
An AIM-120C can very comfortably hit a target at 100km.
At that range, the F-35 takes up 26 arcseconds, or 0.007 degrees. That's roughly about the size of this period, at a distance of 3 meters away.
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Good luck spotting that in a sky of roughly the same colour, full of other objects.
- You can place cameras anywhere, they don't need to be right next to what is being targeted. Nearer ranges will allow AI to misidentify at much higher rates than max standoff ranges of an AIM-120C.
  
  I don’t think you were getting enough credit for ‘misidentify’.
- Pffffffff
  I can see that bright white dot against the dark mode background on my maximum brightness screen with ease! Therefore your argument is invalid!
  
  with a big enough screen i bet an AI camera could see it too
- "I said AI sir!"
- Yeah but what about the AI? Have you thought about the AI that would be running it, which never misses, and would totally be a useful existing thing? 😉
  
  And if it isn't, just frankenstein another AI against it. The solution to lacking AI is more AI, obviously.
- Just for reference: JWST has an optical resolution of 0.07 arcseconds. It’s a mirror 22 feet in diameter though, not something you’d put inside a missile guidance package.
  
  JWST operates in space, i.e. there is no atmosphere blurr to take into account.
  
  Holy shit. I just realised that the reason they're building the ELT is so they can mount it on a missile and shoot down an F-35 at some point.
- Magnifying glass makes things bigger, checkmate! 🔍🔍
- and then also dealing with the F-35 itself, even if you managed to lock on and target it, it will have anti-warfare capabilities you have to contend with.
- Yeah, sure. But that doesn't matter if you point the AI at it with a really good zoom lens, though. And then you have a ton of them, pointed in an directions, like the compound eye of a fly. F35 spotted.

Sir, our air defence is down!
Is it hackers?
No sir, it's cloudy.

If a fighter jet is within visual range of a camera, it's already too late. And that's if there aren't any clouds.
- your not thinking like a musk, not if the government pays the subscription and contract for his early warning camera drone balloon swarm thing or something something they could run on ketamine or something.
  
  imagine it Smithers my electrical spy drones running all day long! and on the government dime!
- Part of the reason air defences mostly rely on radar and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from at least 3 locations using triangulation to build a precise map of objects in the sky, but just like cameras that doesn't work when the objects in question are too high or hidden behind objects. From there you can send countermeasures to intercept coordinates and then arm them to search for nearby objects via infrared.
  Using the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum is pretty much useless in modern weapons. I remember seeing even a Tank operator's display being totally jank because they don't use normal cameras either, perhaps because they wanted data to train machines to do it instead of human operators? Idk, didn't make sense to me.

His fucking obsession with computer vision. He’s so convinced he’s right he forgot that clouds exist… and his cars plow straight into obstacles.
- Yeah, the "lidar is useless" guy whose cars are consistently crashing into things when visibility is bad is telling us that he can do the same thing with missile targeting systems... Sounds like a great idea
  
  Yeah, well, missiles are supposed to crash into things. The right things? Not his job.
- Also night
  
  And that a plane at altitude is too small for wide field cameras which means scanning the sky with narrow fov detectors.
- My friend bought a red car specifically so it could be seen by Tesla's cameras.
  
  I have bad news for him. They can't see firetrucks reliably.
- No no. See guessing objects from flat images is much better than using math and lidar. Especially if you may have a flawed llm model.
  Given how advanced our math and knowledge of radar is, it is literally stupid to use them.
  See, those, radar, lidar and math give you a 3d objects.
  Oh, wait. It is the other way around.
- He's not, otherwise he would know that "low light sensitivity" cameras aren't "sensitive in low-light conditions" but "with lower than normal light sensitivity".
  In an imaginary world where cameras are way more expensive, he'd absolutely be pushing LiDAR in cars. The metrics he cares about are cost and marketability (cool factor), or money for short.

someone tell ellen about beyond visual range
- Elon Denegerate
  
  Watch as he dances under every low bar
- Easy. Just build a giant ball of telescopes and ban water
  Edit: Kinda forgot about the horizon. Ban the earth too. Better yet ask the physicists to borrow their ideal frictionless vacuum.
  
  MY LENS IS DIRTY REEEeee oh wait I found alcohol.

That fucker really thinks he's so smart when all he does is constantly demonstrate what an idiot he is.
- His rise really is symbolic of the rot that has taken hold of our society. Truly, our most degenerate moron has risen to the top of the shit pile.
  
  Look up Peter Prinzip

Says the guy that produces AND designed the cyber truck
- Look. Just because people hope to not see it and actively avoid looking in the general direction of, does not make the cyber truck invisible.
  
  Oh, if only... If then the owners could be invisible too... One can dream

Elon Musk is an idiot

"It a shit design" is rich coming from the guy whos company can't get panels to line up on a car.
- "It's a shit design" Says the man responsible for this:
  
  For some reason my kids love them, I just don't see it. It's unique, I guess...

Also... Fighters are fast, the point is you should fire the missile before you see it.
- The f-35 is built for engagements outside the horizon, like, the target is blocked by the curvature of the earth.
  Light sensitive cameras and rudimentary AI..
  
  Pssh, all you need is a gravity lens to bend the light, problem solved!
- but have you considered that if i can’t see it then it doesn’t exist?
  
  Hmm, that's a good point, like air, right? Total scam.

Looks like being rich and surrounding yourself with yes-people is the #1 cause of sitting confidently at the top of the Dunning-Krueger curve.
- He's riding that curve like one of those surfing dogs.
  
  I think the better analogy is that he has set up camp on top of Mount Stupid and ain't moving from it.
- https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

Can't these things aerosolize you from beyond the fucking horizon? How helpful are those AI powered low light cameras when they're phase transitioned by a missile launched from a hundred miles away?
- You'd need a camera network spanning the entire battlefield. And it'd need telephoto lenses at the very least, because stealth fighters are high and small. And it'd need to stay connected after an initial missile exchange.
  I don't buy for a moment that nobody in the Pentagon has thought of this, and explained why it's not a dealbreaker in a classified report.
  
  Telephoto lenses have a low field of vision. You'd want very high resolution wide angle sensors. Or maybe a combination of the two, where the wide angle cameras spot interesting things for the narrow angle ones to look closer at.
  The difference between the two would be like when they went from U2 spy planes to satellite imagery, going from thin strips of visibility to "here's the hemisphere containing most of Russia".
  
  BVR and over the horizon radar has been around for decades.

"laughably easy to take down fighter jets"
yeah all you have to do is ban the kid running the elon jet twitter. Seems easy enough to me.
- Nah man, just use AI with night cameras. It's never cloudy or foggy anyway.
  
  rookie mistake, can't believe i forgot about this.

Let me guess, he's got an alternative to sell?
- He has Tesla's "Full Self Driving" system, which works with AI and cameras.
  He probably wants to just upload his software to US fighter jets for, say, $20 million per unit.
  
  He has Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” system, which works
  well there you've already told your first lie
  
  It might actually cost way more than that, changing the jet's balance and attaching things to them requires major modifications, but him selling the the systems for that alone sounds about right.
  Maybe the real plan is to intentionally fuck it up and weaken the US Military. Wouldn't put it past the Trump admin.
- Sucking up to Putin. The next thing he will say is all 2 su57s in existence are much more advanced.

"Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. Not even his own kin. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over this land. My company are those loyal to Rohan. And for that, we are banished." - Èomer, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Jesus christ ... this dude is a fucking moron... if it WAS easy defense companies would be doing it already... and guess what, they aren't. Between this dickhead and Captain Brainworm the next four years are gonna SUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!
- I'm looking forward to someone reminding Trump about the carrier catapults.

He's just a dumb attention seeker. Of course he's gonna shit on the most over-engineered thing in existence. Tho the context of the shitty engineering his companies do makes this even funnier. What a loser.

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS, ELON.
IN A CAVE YOU FUCKING INBRED. A CAVE!!!

FTFY

MUH AY-EI
Did he replace his brain with AI already? Because it sure fucking looks like it.
- He has always been this stupid.
  
  His greatest achievement has been buying contracts that state he has invented things that he didn't invent.

Dude’s brain is shit design and fucking sucks, actually

Just use multiple nuclear power plants to power an AI that constantly scans the sky.
Are we sure he's not an NCD poster?
Edit to add - Musk unlocked the achievement, personal enemy of the DoD and entire defense industry. I'm getting popcorn for this.

He isn't smart. He's just a narcissist that lives deep in the warm embrace of Dunning-Kuger

Mr richest man on earth with tesla and space x doesn't even have an electric private jet

What a fucking loser

In the long term maybe he has a point. In the short term the other guys are often using a radar built in 1985 and displaying to a ray tube.
- But also, how far can low light sensitive cameras see into the sky? Maybe a couple miles with some sort of telescopic optics? The F35 can attack from beyond visual range using its 100 mile range radar system.
  
  How big of an area of the sky is that going to cover? And clouds?
  
  Up to the horizon (and actually slightly past due to lensing). The setting sun is a perfect example. Sure, it's brighter than a single fighter aircraft, but as long as you have double digit individual photons to work with the game hasn't changed theoretically, and light collection technology is right around perfect at this point.
  Continuous cloud cover messes up that calculation pretty good, though. If this kind of system was seriously deployed today we might see pre-WWII tactics and strategies coming back to exploit that. In practice, sensor fusion in all kinds of bands is the name of the game, and what will probably make stealth aircraft obsolete eventually.
- Yeah, while we are at it. Everything sucks compared to the starship enterprise. You can't beat photon torpedoes and shields. All current military technology sucks.
  
  Elon Musk's next idea is to just power everything with fusion. It's easy! There's deuterium everywhere!

Well if we’re on shitting on his character. This man had the opportunity to change the approach to implementing neuralink tech to make it less destructive but instead chose to continue with their direction. A direct competitor has since proven that there was no need to be so invasive.
- I'm glad it's been officially proven by a competitior. I've been shouting that since articles came out about the first human test subject. All of that invasive surgery, issues with the brain tissue pushing out some of the wires, and the best denonstrable result is that he can use a computer mouse with his mind?
  There are so many damn options for accessibility with computer control (even mouse control) that don't involve invasive brain surgery, and we know that we can monitor brain activity pretty clearly through sensors on the scalp.

Bro forgor about IFR conditions 💀
- Or the curvature of the Earth
  
  Or BVR fights

He is uncomfortable when we are not about him

Well in ideal conditions it might be theoretically possible, but you know what else you can do with low-light sensitivity cameras and a rudimentary AI-based aircraft targeting system?

Assuming this is OC, next time do a little better at cropping and scaling. Ypu move that plane to the far right under yhe arrow and youve got 2/3 of the blank canvas to work with. I don't expect much effort on meme post especially NDC but I would like to actually be able to read the tweets without zooming in and theres enough white space to scale them up.

Send one after him then.

Hopefully not the same elementary AI and cameras as the Tesla's. The missiles would be aiming for barricades on the highway

Fuck em both.
- Elon and Musk?
  
  Mush and the plane

I mean, in comparison to some of the F-22 variants, the F-35 is a pretty big piece of shit.
- That VERY much depends on mission requirements. The F35 has issues, but calling it a big piece of shit shows that you're an internet troll who has no idea what it's talking about
  
  No, the designers will tell you the same. It's a compromise, it's not perfect at anything but it's very good at most of it's intended purposes. It's that old addage don't let perfect be the enemy of great.
  Don't get me wrong I still think it's smiling idiot twin is the cooler plane.