Cybertruck competitor's mid-gate

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I would definitely be down for that, my spares get used and its usually where road side service wont go.
Not sure about space, but it would be a decent place to put it. Particularly if they could make a sort of pull out/ fold down setup where it’s low to the ground so easy to load and and you don’t have to lift it out.
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Not sure about space, but it would be a decent place to put it. Particularly if they could make a sort of pull out/ fold down setup where it’s low to the ground so easy to load and and you don’t have to lift it out.
Pretty sure there wont be room, the spare will probably get thrown into the back to bounce around
 

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Oh, wow! Well, I guess more like a roll-top.

I figure if the tonneau is closed, I don't care if the midgate is closed, too, you know?

-Crissa
I actually thought you were suggesting no tailgate, just tonneau down to the bed, that would make it a tambour desk! LOL
 

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Have the TeslaBot change your tire. You just sit in the truck watching Netflix.

Come to think of it… maybe the frunk should be where the Teslabot is kept. They didn’t talk much about how limber the Teslabot should be, but there should definitely be an Optimus Frunk version.

Then when I’m out in the woods cutting firewood I just push a button and Optimus Frunk loads all the wood I cut into the vault.
Tire changing would be a great test of AI intelligence. We humans, if we are weak, use gravity to assist with the lug nuts. I think AI is 100 years away from that kind of adaptive thinking.
 

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Tire changing would be a great test of AI intelligence. We humans, if we are weak, use gravity to assist with the lug nuts. I think AI is 100 years away from that kind of adaptive thinking.
When people tell me “A computer beat the best human at Go!” Suggesting how much smarter they are than we are… I ask them “But can you teach it to catch a baseball?”

“Machine Learning” is spectacular at doing one thing really really well. But they are like the perfect idiot savant. There might be another robot that can catch a baseball, but the one that plays Go won’t ever do that. You might bodge together a bunch of robots, but we still haven‘t made one that can do learn a dozen arbitrary tasks by watching someone else do it.

All that said… a impact tool isn’t that much bulkier than a tire iron and the truck has a compressor ;)
 


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True for the last 5 billion years. ....... On Earth

It's rarely the single invention which changes everything, but the convergence of various breakthroughs, into something that was never envisioned.

These breakthroughs are converging...computing, battery tech, graphics cards, AI, Machine learning, big data.

IMO a reasonable chance we won't have general AI for a long long long time..

BUT, like the touring test, we could have a million Narrow Intelligence systems working in unison, which to us, is indistinguishable from General.
 

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True for the last 5 billion years. ....... On Earth

It's rarely the single invention which changes everything, but the convergence of various breakthroughs, into something that was never envisioned.

These breakthroughs are converging...computing, battery tech, graphics cards, AI, Machine learning, big data.

IMO a reasonable chance we won't have general AI for a long long long time..

BUT, like the touring test, we could have a million Narrow Intelligence systems working in unison, which to us, is indistinguishable from General.
It is possible that some AI systems are already conscious.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/openai-already-sentient/amp
The speed of conscious evolution will be breathtaking when it occurs. Literally we are moments away while simultaneously being decades away.
 

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I think you hit the eject button and it launches 50 feet forward onto the roof of the car in front. Then Optimus Frunk reaches in and turns the wheel so they have to pull over.

That was the plan anyhow. When they realized opening the frunk to pop him out would block the drivers view and rip the hood off the truck they abandoned it.
Sound like you need a Trunk Monkey more than a Tesla Robot.

 
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The Chevy Avalanche had a mid-gate, but the rear glass had to be manually detached and stowed.
Looks complicated, that or he didn't know how to open it. Strange coming from a dealership, you'd they'd rehearse before filming.
 

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Sound like you need a Trunk Monkey more than a Tesla Robot.

Can I have a FRUNK Monkey? Frunk Teslabot just doesn't have the right ring to it
 

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The best door is no door?

I'd take a truck with no back wall, no mid-gate and a tonneau instead...

-Crissa
Without a tailgate for the pickup truck, my dogs would fall off of the bed.
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