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?
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Because he's a long way away. Longer than miles away...maybe...light years?
Musk <-------------------------------- LYs -----------------------------------> Self-Driving car
Any questions?
Your point doesn't help me because it shows that we can fold space-time to create a shortcut with warp technology. 
Because the self driving tech exists, but it's in the next galaxy
It's actually on earth, in metro trains
Could be in the galaxy, but it would be safe to assume out of the solar system by quite some distance.
This might be the most lemmy comment I've ever seen.
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.
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.
han did the kessel run in 12 parsecs
I think the headcanon is that the shortest distance is impressive.
Either a different faster and harder route through "the kessel". Or that 12 parsecs is the absolute minimum distance it can be done in, perfectly apexing every corner.
Not even headcanon, that is canon. They used the fan theory on Solo to explain it. That whole movie was so unnecessary...
yeah honestly I know the answer even though I did the joke. the star wars mythical travel requires hyperspace navigation where objects still exist in it and the nav computer is basically plotting the smallest safe distance (or something like that). Basically all speed in hyperspace is the same its just about the route. Its basically explained in the original movie when han says (spoilers ahead /s):
"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"
Or it's a roundabout way of saying he cheated: "I finished the marathon in 22 miles!" :D
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
There are probably self-driving cars in some alien civilizations.
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
Neither the writer, the editor, nor the Telegraph's readership are millennials.
They aren't streets ahead.
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.
He's several big bangs from self driving