It'll only benefit Tesla if anyone buys their shoddy cars.
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It won't help Tesla one wit. They are going to collapse.
Roadrunner cartoon style murals everywhere it is, then.
I have absolutely no problem with self-driving vehicles and I'm fully prepared to accept that it is a possibility in the near future. However I am also utterly confident that it won't be Tesla that finally cracks it, and I am sure that they will still call it "full self driving" even in a future where we have actual full self driving.
The law really needs to be laid down on this stuff, unless it can actually drive itself without a human even in the vehicle, and do so reliably, then they're not allowed to call it anything that implies that capability.
Teslas are for Nazis
In a delightful change of pace, the Nazis are putting themselves in the oven.
Owning a tesler is embarrassing. Even in my deep red trump loving state, most people would never buy one.
Shocking…
Great news for them in one country I guess!
Wow such boon
Serious question: If I get hit by one of these death machines, who can I (or my next-of-kin) sue? Has that been established in court?
Serious answer: the owner of the vehicle is responsible for it. You sue the owner, their insurance, possibly your insurance, possibly tesla, possibly nobody. The best result is to walk away avoiding court with more money.
In a Musk-approved world:
- You're hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
- You're hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
- You're the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
- You're the owner and the car hits someone while you're not in it, you get sued for owning it.
- You're the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for "not maintaining it".
In all cases, the warranty on the Tesla in question is immediately voided. And the odometer starts running 15% faster with every major incident.
The boon here isn't that it'll allow them to bring a shoddy product to market. The boon is they'll be able to continue milking investors by hiding the fact that they have no marketable product in this space while they keep selling off their stock.
I wonder if the author realizes there are other companies making "self-driving" vehicles.
So you're saying that a corrupt man in power uses that power to benefit himself at the expense of the public, but it's not corruption, because additional parties also happen to benefit?
i must be misunderstanding
Please point at where I said it was not corruption.
of course you didnt. that's why the misunderstanding comes in. I just wonder what you're implying with that comment... the interpretation i gave above is the first thing that comes to mind. like, so what if the author didn't consider that, what changes?
id be happy to hear a clarification!
I mean why microfocus on Tesla when this impacts the entire industry?
Fair question! I'm not sure if there are any other industry figures holding major positions in the federal government but that would definitely be worth discussing if it isn't just Elon
I'm sure that they're just as shitty and more concerned with profits than safety, just like Tesla. When you don't punish companies and ceo's like you would a homeless person, or teacher, or doctor, or police officer, or fireman, then they have no incentive to do anything other than profit at the expense of society.
All I can say is invest in 4k vehicle cameras. Get one facing one and one facing the rear. CYA for when these self-driving Teslas start crashing into everything.
Your going to need a body cam. The car isn't too bad with others cars, it's people and bikes and motorcycles it has real problems with.
I think the problem was they probably trained the AI on Americans driving normally i.e badly, Americans have zero lane discipline, every video I've ever seen of Americans driving is like an instructional video on how not to do it.
give it a few months, and you won't be allowed to sue tesla any more. i'm fucking serious.
Got a recommendation? I'm in
I have a Rove camera I got a few years ago. I want to get a second one for the back (I guess they sell a dual kit now).
and thus america became that much more like russia
At least we got some wild videos out of that I guess? Peak internet days.
Well that's convenient for the author maker / oligarch / unelected government squatter running the country. I guess every once in awhile things just turn up his way.
the neat thing about oligarchs is the betting odds that they'll keep their heads
This would be REALLY Corrupt if Elon Musk had donated a QUARTER BILLION DOLLARS TO TRUMP and then was Given a Government Oversight Position! FORTUNATELY Fox News told me that DIDNT happen!
The all caps get me every time. Just take your damn upvote.
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the clock is ticking before comments like this actually become serious.
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Alright, stop...
Hammer time
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