I'm reminded of a submarine, but I'm not sure why.
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The only natural predator of billionaires is addiction.
Don't drive drunk, fam.
I don't drink, but I realize that getting home after one has been drinking is a legitimate problem that does encourage people to drive drunk.
It's one thing that I hope that self-driving cars will help address in the long run. If everyone's got their own electronic chauffeur readily available, it's lot easier to let them get one home safely.
I've been saying my next car will have FSD for... almost a decade now. I have lost hope that what you describe will be a reality for me anytime soon, and with the progress of self-driving in general? Very. Little. Hope.
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I continue to be happy for her
How can you be a billionaire CEO and don't have a driver? The CEO of a company I used to work for, cannot contractually drive by itself and had a couple of drivers 24/7 working for him, and he didn't even was a billionaire.
I would prefer driving in most situation regardless I'm a CEO or not. Probably that's why I'm not a CEO.....
That said, she could well hire a driver service for that, a taxi or even just call a Uber.
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Some people like to drive, some people hate driving.
Of course she was. Putting your car into reverse and letting it back fully into a pond without braking when you actually meant to put it in drive is not something an unimpaired driver does.
Maybe the machine knew where she was going.
For those that don't know where they're going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY
The gear selection method in those is non-intuitive. Doesn't alter your conclusions, just an unfortunate and unsafe design choice.
Edit: replaced wrong words
Don’t be so sure. I have seen people, rarely, actually be that incredibly stupid.
But, yes, it most often means they are impaired.
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She did everything wrong that she could have done. I'm going to assume even sober she never read the manual and learned where the manual door releases are.
I am kind of surprised that in 2024 vehicles don't have drop detect sensors but our Roombas do. For 99% of driving of you detect a dropoff, some sort of active brake should be applied...
After almost freezing to death in Colorado winter with a broken down rental, I make it a point to know how to operate all the locks and ignition manually.
It always amazes me how many people hop in a completely foreign car and just start driving. They'd rather try to learn where the windshield wiper control is while barelling down the highway at 80mph instead of while parked in the garage.
I've got pretty strong rental preferences so I'm sure they hate me when I ask for specific vehicles.
The false positives with that sort of system would be a major annoyance or dangerous. Steep driveways, rough transitions, potholes, railroad crossings, speed bumps, etc.
A Roomba operates on a nice flat floor and there is no reason it would have to traverse a surface transition of more than 3/8ths of an inch.
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You hit a pot hole on the highway and now you’re stopping in the middle of it.
That’s why they don’t exist on vehicles, there’s lots of cases where they drop and still need to keep moving, while only a couple where it should stop, and in those cases it’s usually too late and won’t help.
Well no, obviously there's a maximum speed. Just like parking sensors have different distance warnings when driving versus parking.
And on a Tesla with so much vision, it should really know the topography.
At speed is when you would need the active breaking…
And great now my car stopped in the parking lot from every speed bump…,
Can you provide a usecase where active breaking from a drop would actually help?
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Fuck drunk drivers. Just glad she didn't kill anyone else.
Bummer Mitch McConnell wasn't in the trunk.