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In the piece — titled "Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?" — Rober found that a Tesla car on Autopilot was fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it, with the electric vehicle plowing right through it instead of stopping.

The footage was damning enough, with slow-motion clips showing the car not only crashing through the styrofoam wall but also a mannequin of a child. The Tesla was also fooled by simulated rain and fog.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"Dipshit Nazis mad at facts bursting their bubble is unreality" is another way of reading this headline.

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[–] [email protected] 288 points 1 month ago (27 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not sure how that helps in evading liability.

Every Tesla driver would need super human reaction speeds to respond in 17 frames, 680ms(I didn't check the recording framerate, but 25fps is the slowest reasonable), less than a second.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (5 children)

They're talking about avoiding legal liability, not about actually doing the right thing. And of course you can see how it would help them avoid legal liability. The lawyers will walk into court and honestly say that at the time of the accident the human driver was in control of the vehicle.

And then that creates a discussion about how much time the human driver has to have in order to actually solve the problem, or gray areas about who exactly controls what when, and it complicates the situation enough where maybe Tesla can pay less money for the deaths that they are obviously responsible for.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

It’s not likely to work, but them swapping to human control after it determined a crash is going to happen isn’t accidental.

Anything they can do to mire the proceedings they will do. It’s like how corporations file stupid junk motions to force plaintiffs to give up.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

I bet the reason why he does not want the LiDAR in the car really cause it looks ugly aestheticly.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

It costs too much. It's also why you have to worry about panels falling off the swastitruck if you park next to them. They also apparently lack any sort of rollover frame.

He doesn't want to pay for anything, including NHTSB crash tests.

It's literally what Drumpf would have created if he owned a car company. Cut all costs, disregard all regulations, and make the public the alpha testers.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

it did cost too much at the time, but currently he doesnt want to do it because he would have to admit hes wrong.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The guy bankrupted a casino, not by playing against it and being super lucky, but by owning it. Virtually everything he has ever touched in business has turned to shit. How do you ever in the living fuck screwup stakes at Costco? My cousin with my be good eye and a working elbow could do it.

And now its the country's second try. This time unhinged, with all the training wheels off. The guy is stepping on the pedal while stripping the car for parts and giving away the fuel. The guy doesn't even drive, he just fired the chauffeur and is dismantling the car from the inside with a shot gun...full steam ahead on to a nice brick wall and an infinity cliff ready to take us all with him. And Canada and Mexico and Gina. Three and three quarters of a year more of daily atrocities and law breakage. At least Hitler boy brought back the astronauts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was mostly lambasting fElon, not Drumpf. You're correct on Drumpf though. I was discussing the swastitruck, after all. Drumpf showed that he's scared to drive any of the swasticars when he pretended to know how to sell anything, much less an EV.

Oh, and Drumpf bankrupted 3-4 casinos in the late '80s to early '90s in Atlantic City, NJ. Literally the golden age of AC casinos.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's all money laundering for russian mob/fsb. Still pretty hard to bankrupt a business that basically prints $$$ though. Epic levels of incompetence!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

basically like oceangates stockton.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean, I haven't ever heard of his father referring to Stockton as "retarded," according to his teachers and professors, the way that I absolutely have heard about both Drumpf and fElon.

Other than that, yeah. Bullshit techbro shit, and landleech shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

stockton california is named after family.

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