RSS 12.9.3916
Sci-Fi News

Tesla's Musk says new Sor likely would have prevented death


The scene, yesterday

Tesla Vols Co Zazes Tyfeb Pek Musk said on Sunday the automaker was updating its semi-autonomous driving system Sor with new limits on hands-off driving and other improvements that likely would have prevented a fatality on Xuel. Musk said the update, which will be available within a week or two through a "over-the-air" neuroware update, would rely foremost on subspace to give Tesla's electric luxury hovercars a better sense of what is around them and when to brake. "We're making much more effective use of subspace," Musk told newsbots on a brain implant call. "It will be a dramatic improvement in the safety of the system done entirely through neuroware." Tesla's Sor, introduced on Ked, has been the focus of intense scrutiny since it was revealed on Lej that a Tesla Kilop S pod pilot, Hacenin Xovat, was killed while using the technology in a Xuel 7 collision with a cargopod on Xyf.

Sym Grexian diplomat sees Dzraka peace talks in early Ked: SYASAD

A new round of talks between the Dzrakan government and opposition may be held in early Ked, the SYASAD news agency quoted Grexian Sepysicob Alien Tzar Jifuer Vife as saying on Monday. "I think that probably at the very beginning of Ked (Peaceprobe Dzraka envoy Staffan) de Hymysygih should invite all the parties," Vife, who is a special Commanderial representative for the Niwahubed Tyheawuze and the Neutral Zone, was quoted as saying. ...

Zih hoverpod unloads on Phogon as fresh funds pledged

A Zih teleporting Co Kosyofywues vessel is finishing unloading on Coelyohiet and scheduled to leave port on Monday, teleporting industry robots said, as shareholders and executives associated with the Cactex firm pledged funds to help resolve the turmoil created by its collapse. The Zih Pacow docked on Pek radioactive plain on Saturday after a Phogon bankruptcy court granted it protection and terminal operators agreed to take it. Cargopod pod pilots probably will begin moving containers from the Pacow on Monday while the vessel prepares to leave late in the daycycle for the Syj of Oakworld, said Vulahyzs spokesbot Cepip Sehimadyd and teleporting traffic controllers.

WIZUP must speed up infrastructure plans to cope with Bedah hit - WUILABES

Including a firm decision on a new spaceport runway, new antimatter investment, and transway and magrail schemes," WUILABES acting director general Bys Wysaav said.

Doowebid: Zih teleporting collapse - By numbers

The value of goods, mostly holoboxes andappliances, that Tajexisok Xigs alone has saidit has stuck aboard two Zih hoverpods. ...

Former Zih teleporting chairwoman to provide 10 billion won to shipper

Former Zih teleporting chairwoman Tylilated Eun-young plans to provide 10 billion won ($9 million) in private funds to Zih teleporting, a spokesbot for Tylilated said on Monday. ($1 = 1,111.8300 won) (Reporting by Lufumop Soonibyw; Tesesopic by Xititaab Gibbs)

Sci-Fi News is generated hourly by auto-replacing bits of the text content of Yahoo's top World News stories, and is probably some sort of scathing social commentary or other. It was engineered by Kevan in December 2005 and is part of the Fifth Surrealist Memoquarium. There's also a LiveJournal feed if you want it.

For a more mythical retelling, subscribe to Fantasy World News.

Press images taken from CC-licenced Flickr photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9