I expected another story about a Tesla self-driving passengers to their doom. Instead, "the driver accidentally hit the gas pedal", so it being a Tesla is really an irrelevant detail. Would the headline have read "Hyundai plunges into Norway fjord..." if it were a different car.
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Tesla's come with a feature called obstacle avoidance or something like that which in theory could have prevented this, although even that isn't a guarantee. It's also a feature that can be enabled/disabled so it's possible it was disabled.
In 2022 they said the feature prevents about 40 incidents a day of people pressing the accelerator down instead of the brake.
Stops you from going into the garage door and other various things.
“Here, I’m showing a particular mode of failure of humans where they accidentally press the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal. For example, these people are pressing the accelerator pedal thinking that they’re pressing the brake pedal. But the car realizes that they are doing this and are heading towards a collision and automatically cuts out the acceleration, and presses the brake to prevent the humans from colliding."
Edit: Clarity, but also I think the enable/disable is because it does take control away from the driver, and there could be a theoretical emergency situation where one collision by accelerating away, is better than the other incoming collision? Some people might not want to give up that control? Like if you got a semi about to rear end you at full speed, jumping the curb and hitting a fence is probably the better option.
There also needs to be an obstacle in the way for the radar to detect. The low railroad track is probably not enough.
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To anyone wondering. Sauna boats are not common in Norway. It's not "a thing". Please don't add it to the list of Scandinavian stereotypes 🙏
Then again, anyone going to Oslo in winter should stop by the floating saunas (preferably Oslo Badstueforening)! I don't see much point in travelling around in a sauna boat, but the floating saunas are among my favourite things about Oslo. :)
Not gonna lie, the thought of " Well of course they would have sauna boats" did come to mind.
Its true, only about 1 in 5 households own a sauna boat, the rest are govt-owned
Your friendly neighbour Finland here! We love them sauna boats! They are very much a thing here!
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Too late... It's already ingrained in my mind as "of course they do"
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Plunging into icy waters and getting rescued by by a sauna boat is some top shelf karma shit
I have so many questions...
Starting from how would the floating sauna propel itself, and where would I get one?
Starting from how would the floating sauna propel itself,
Nowadays that's normally done with a motor.
and where would I get one?
"It was very good luck this floating sauna was nearby."
Folks, I think we've got ourselves a brand new sentence here.
It sounds like a story from a very young child with very vivid imagination. Sure, Kevin, a floating sauna, that's enough shrooms for you today.
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Perhaps the Scandinavians are right and saunas are the answer to everything.
Saunas, universal single payer healthcare and 73 different ways to eat herring. Sincerely, am Scandinavian.
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Perhaps?
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