And the president is driving one of these?
Maybe we should be purchasing lots of paint and cement blockades...
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When he was in the Tesla asking if he should go for a ride I was screaming "Yes! Yes Mr. President! Please! Elon, show him full self driving on the interstate! Show him full self driving mode!"
The president can't drive by law unless on the grounds of the White House and maybe Camp David. At least while in office. They might be allowed to drive after leaving office...
I don't think Trump can drive. As in, he doesn't even know what the pedals do.
clearly knows what he is doing
He looks like he's making the siren sounds and having a great time
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Are his hands even big enough to hold the wheel?
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If you own a tesla or a cybertruck you deserve it.
Looney Tunes shit.
If you get any strong emotions on material shit when someone makes a video...you have 0 of my respect. Period.
Saw a guy smash a Stradivarius on video once. definitely had strong emotions on that one.
Really torn up about not having your respect tho...
I think you could argue that that's not just material stuff though. That's historical and significant culturally.
Idk if the video has reason to embue strong emotions then it's fair
Lol yeah they're "furious"
I have no clue what you're trying to say, but the significant amount of outrage a day or two later that I suddenly saw explode on Twitter was mind boggling to me. Couldn't tell if it was bots or morons but either way, people are big mad about the video.
As Electrek points out, Autopilot has a well-documented tendency to disengage right before a crash. Regulators have previously found that the advanced driver assistance software shuts off a fraction of a second before making impact.
This has been known.
They do it so they can evade liability for the crash.
The self-driving equivalent of "Jesus take the wheel!"
That makes so little sense...
It detects it's about to crash then gives up and lets you sort it?
That's like the opposite of my Audi who does detect I'm about to hit something and gives me either a warning or just actively hits the brakes if I don't have time to handle it.
If this is true, this is so fucking evil it's kinda amazing it could have reached anywhere near prod.
The point is that they can say "Autopilot wasn't active during the crash." They can leave out that autopilot was active right up until the moment before, or that autopilot directly contributed to it. They're just purely leaning into the technical truth that it wasn't on during the crash. Whether it's a courtroom defense or their own next published set of data, "Autopilot was not active during any recorded Tesla crashes."
even your audi is going to dump to human control if it can't figure out what the appropriate response is. Granted, your Audi is probably smart enough to be like "yeah don't hit the fucking wall," but eh.... it was put together by people that actually know what they're doing, and care about safety.
Tesla isn't doing this for safety or because it's the best response. The cars are doing this because they don't want to pay out for wrongful death lawsuits.
If this is true, this is so fucking evil it’s kinda amazing it could have reached anywhere near prod.
It's musk. he's fucking vile, and this isn't even close to the worst thing he's doing. or has done.
Any crash within 10s of a disengagement counts as it being on so you can't just do this.
Edit: added the time unit.
Edit2: it's actually 30s not 10s. See below.
Where are you seeing that?
There’s nothing I’m seeing as a matter of law or regulation.
In any case liability (especially civil liability) is an absolute bitch. It’s incredibly messy and likely will not every be so cut and dry.
Well it's not that it was a crash caused by a level 2 system, but that they'll investigate it.
So you can't hide the crash by disengaging it just before.
Looks like it's actually 30s seconds not 10s, or maybe it was 10s once upon a time and they changed it to 30?
The General Order requires that reporting entities file incident reports for crashes involving ADS-equipped vehicles that occur on publicly accessible roads in the United States and its territories. Crashes involving an ADS-equipped vehicle are reportable if the ADS was in use at any time within 30 seconds of the crash and the crash resulted in property damage or injury
https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2022-06/ADAS-L2-SGO-Report-June-2022.pdf
Thanks for that.
The thing is, though the NHTSA generally doesn't make a determination on criminal or civil liability. They'll make the report about what happened and keep it to the facts, and let the courts sort it out whose at fault. they might not even actually investigate a crash unless it comes to it. It's just saying "when your car crashes, you need to tell us about it." and they kinda assume they comply.
Which, Tesla doesn't want to comply, and is one of the reasons Musk/DOGE is going after them.
I knew they wouldn't necessarily investigate it, that's always their discretion, but I had no idea there was no actual bite to the rule if they didn't comply. That's stupid.
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"Dipshit Nazis mad at facts bursting their bubble is unreality" is another way of reading this headline.
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