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Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

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I avoid driving anywhere near Tesla’s, especially tailing them. Phantom braking is not okay.

phantom breaking isnt a thing in 2023. it used to be a problem, it's not anymore if you have HW3

This is not true, I purchased a Model 3 brand new in 2021; it has HW3 and it absolutely does phantom braking regularly on road trips. This is on US interstates.

Re: Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I first focused on adding relevant context. Also; not your monkey.

How is this relevant context?

It's a German newspaper that has relatively recently been caught publishing nonsense about foreign competitors to German companies.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handelsblatt#Anti-Vaccine_cont...

Re: Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "The official policy to deprive customers and victims of information as much as possible is shocking from the standpoint of being flagrantly, cynically customer-hostile to the point of probable illegality, but it's right out of both Musk's normal playbook and that of his erstwhile colleagues at e.g. Paypal" It seems like you're holding Tesla to a higher standard than any other automaker. Which other automakers reve…

> It seems like you're holding Tesla to a higher standard than any other automaker. Other automakers don't go and scream around in their advertising (or in the antics of their founder) to the degree Tesla does.

Tesla doesn't do any advertising. I mean, they have a website, but you have to go look at it.

Re: Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

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I treat them like semi-trucks on the highway. Pass them or let them pass you, but don't loiter alongside, behind or in front of one.

Why are you loitering beside other cars? This is a good safety practice regardless of the car’s make and model.

It is totally normal to just go behind one car without constantly overtaking or being overtaken. It is even actually safer then being constantly in and out of lanes.

Re: Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

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IMO Tesla would be better if they focused solely on making good EVs, rather than also trying to become the leader in self-driving.

I get that they're trying to create a wider moat against their competitors, but if their self-driving software are found to have systematic failure modes in them as these internal docs seem to suggest, then that could very well do more harm to their reputation in the long run.

Re: Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

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I didn't see the actual data or a link or anything to how to get it, but why on earth would it be 100GB? That seems fairly large if it's just tallying accidents and such.

If just a few of the accident reports have attached photos or videos, you'll quickly get to 100GB.

Re: Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

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I avoid driving anywhere near Tesla’s, especially tailing them. Phantom braking is not okay.

You shouldn't tail any car in general. There's a lot more 'real' braking out there than 'phantom' braking.

Humans in traffic are relatively easy to predict.

They don’t just randomly brake for no reason.

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Why are you loitering beside other cars? This is a good safety practice regardless of the car’s make and model.

It's a shame this is getting downvoted because it's true. In any level of traffic except stop-and-go--and even then to a large extent--you should be doing everything within your power to either pass the cars on your right, and/or move over to let cars pass you on the left. It is a vanishingly small number of scenarios where you are keeping pace with a car next to you and you're not in the wrong. This isn't just at hi…

That's not the same everywhere in the world though, and even in places where it is strictly passing on the left (or on the right in the UK, Japan and a few other places) 'keep your lane' tends to be the rule if the right hand lane is also moving at the speed limit (so you can't legally pass).

That way the carrying capacity of the road is higher. But when traffic is less dense 'station keeping' should be avoided at all times and if someone moves into my 'dead zone' or just to the left of me I'll gradually slow down to force them to finish their overtake.

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