What the hell does the President of France know about RAM!? /s
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Ah, yes, the ol' "X needs 300 of whatever it is I sell" gambit.
Didn’t Musk promise like a decade ago that Tesla self driving would run fine on their “hardware v2” computer, then a few years later that it would require v3, and then v4 before he finally stopped making such promises?
Nah, it just needs a team of Indian guys to step in whenever the collision alarms go off.
Whoever at micron that said this is obviously some novel kind of idiot.
Old kinda idiot. Marketing Dept pumping stock with "white paper".
300? Come on. We all know it comes in powers of 2.
AI write that?
Shovel vendor forecasts massive uptick in hole digging.
Each will also need a portable nuclear reactor and a swimming pool filled with the blood of innocents and ice cubes made out of children's tears, for cooling purposes.
Jesus. People are still talking about self-driving cars?
People still think we'll be driving them on Mars. Elon Musk had incredible penetration with idiots.
This is an idea that should be shelved for a good 20-30 years, honestly.
We'd need global collaboration to come up with a universal standard applied to all cars (regardless of price). If it can't be a standard, then it's a bullshit idea. Competing standards and companies simply means abandoned tech everywhere and everything, thinking their tech is best, nothing works together, issues across the board, and high cost to customers.
We should just build walkable cities. It doesn’t even require any new knowledge, we can start right now and there are even many places in the US, the shittest of us all, where there’s honestly nothing really stopping us.
Self-driving cars are dumb because they are a tonne of work to ultimately solve zero problems when we could do basically nothing special and improve everyone’s lives within our lifetimes.
Cities can be walkable and have self driving cars. We sure can have less cars, but it sure sounds better than letting everyone drive. Also, some people can't walk & need assistance moving.
Sure, but we’re acting like self-driving cars will save us and not like they’re a neat little extra thing. Yes, some people donneed assistance moving, but there are entire para-taxi services that could receive better funding. In Ottawa, for example, the public transit service has a whole program called “ParaTranspo” with soecialized buses and everything. People who have trouble moving, in our society, are very not going to be able to afford self-driving cars and even if they did many will not be able to get themselves into them without assistance anyway. Also, in well-built neighbourhoods, people with disabilities can get around on their own on scooters and such, even in the winter; I see this in my own neighbourhood all the time and they are so mich more free than if they were tied to a car.
Self-driving cars aren’t much more than cheap propaganda that people slurp up so they can keep pretending that cars are a viable form of personal transport outside of edge cases. As someone with a sportscar who mostly just takes public transit and walks I can assure you, cars are largely stupid and we’re kinda dumb for wanting them.
People should just drive the car.
Are you aware of just how bad people are at that?
Waymo robotaxis are already better drivers than humans, by a lot.
Let's see Waymo in not ideal climates. I do not understand this obsession with robot taxis. Waymo is still losing money and would have been a better business if they just hired cab drivers.
Future. They want a future where they don't need people. So pure profits.
Sure in select cities and conditions. Let's see them drive on a snow covered road.
As bad as people are, something like a Tesla is much worse
And something like a Waymo costs $250,000+ which is... Hard to swallow
https://sfist.com/2025/04/25/you-might-soon-be-able-to-buy-and-own-your-own-self-driving-waymo-car/
I imagine pople stealing RAM from cars.
No way they would make it upgradable or user serviceable lol
They just get really fast and accurate with soldering irons. Until later ones come along absolutely surgical with a flame thrower.
They're almost certainly going to be soldered chips instead of traditional ram sticks.
Where there's meth there's a way
Soldered, and often in hard to get to places in the vehicle. it'd be easier and more lucrative to strip the wiring for the copper.
How? It’s soldered on.
I'm not saying that's realistic, but I imagine my cyberpunk thieves now with portable soldering stations and microscopes
Like catalytic converters?
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We went to the moon with Kbs and now cars need Gbs?
We went to the moon with rooms of women with pencils.
There is a lot less traffic/pedestrians in space.
I'm reading that headline as: Major electronics company explains why self driving cars and home robots will be unaffordable.
RAM used to be ~$4/GB. So 300*4=$1200. A price increase of $1200 is actually pretty darn affordable to get self driving, surely?
Sure, there are other components than RAM needed. But the RAM alone is not what would make it unaffordable.
Only because of current RAM prices and artificial scarcity keeping those prices high.
300GB of RAM shouldn't be that expensive. I have 1/3 of that in my server (bought years ago). If it wasn't for the AI bullshit, 300GB would be fairly reasonable to buy in a couple of years time.
They think that makes them sound smart and important.
It actually makes them sound incompetent.
No no no. See, this is why AI is so fucked up. It doesn't matter if it's human or driverless. Cars aren't supposed to RAM anything!!!
They should dodge not ram.
Obviously a company that makes RAM will say RAM is important, what else would we expect?
I'd love to know what Waymo vehicles have though.
LIDAR. They have lidar.
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I definitely misread Micron as Macron, and was confused why the French president was chiming in on this conversation
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