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  • tuhriel@infosec.pub
    45·
    2 months ago

    I’m happy to dunk on musk as much as the next guy, but that title is bull.

    Lightyears measure distance not time, how can they mess that up?

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      2 months ago

      Because he’s a long way away. Longer than miles away…maybe…light years?

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Musk <-------------------------------- LYs -----------------------------------> Self-Driving car

      Any questions?

      • k_rol@lemmy.ca
        5·
        2 months ago

        Your point doesn’t help me because it shows that we can fold space-time to create a shortcut with warp technology. Reference.

      • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        It’s extremely nuanced. ‘Light years ahead’ is correct since you are thinking about a race where one competitor is a long distance ahead of others. On the other hand, ‘light years away’ doesn’t make sense, since we think of achievements in terms of time needed, rather than distance.

        • ji17br@lemmy.ml
          6·
          2 months ago

          You’ve never heard the term miles ahead?

          Tommy is miles ahead of Timmy in math class.

          Clearly not referring to distance but it absolutely makes sense.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      2 months ago

      Maybe he needs 6.706e+8 miles more data

      Edit, more math: that’s 8.9 million hours of data at 75mph, or about 2 more hours of data per Tesla (at 75mph).

      I’m actually surprised that musk doesn’t talk about how many light years have been traveled.

      Edit: first number was wrong? My TI89 is upstairs, so I’m trusting search engines

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      1·
      2 months ago

      You have to read the title in context of millennial journalism title convention.

      It is tiring, you aint wrong but there is context on why it makes sense tho

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
    7·
    2 months ago

    Despite the title not understanding what a lightyear actually means, good. We need fewer cars and especially not ones that have shown they will just run people over without care.

    Not to mention cars steal resources from other countries, whether it be oil or metal for batteries etc. What we need is more publically funded transport that actually works well and is quick, safe and even rich people/politicans would travel on.

    One of the worst things ever invented to a degree was cars especially since they often install roadways to completely bypass small ‘out of the way’ places or worse make cities completely designed around them since there are no places to walk, play or hang out (that’s a slight aside but I do think the death of third places has cars partially to blame).

    We also need for transport companies to start recycling and actually start caring about their own waste management.

    Also, don’t make me laugh that it’s Elon that is ‘lightyears’ away from self driving cars, it’s Tesla and all the people who actually do the work, Elon is an mediocre man who gets worshiped way too much for having too much money, spending it irresponsibly, acting irresponsibly and then taking all the credit for other’s hard work, just like every other billionaire out there.