Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

Post by rmbyrro » Fri, May 26, 2023, 9:58 PM UTC

otterley wrote: post #598

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If you care, you'd extrapolate the 2 fatalities to how many would be if bikes were adopted in mass as a means of transport in the Washington state (comparably to cars). The number of bike trips will not increase by 100x only, certainly by orders of magnitude more than that. Now multiply the 2 fatalities considering 10K, 100K or even more bike trips. Ebikes can reach and sustain higher velocities much more easily than…

OK, let's take a look at traffic fatalities in Denmark (where bicycles are the primary means of transport in most cities). 25 bicycle fatalities, compared to 64 auto fatalities. It's a much closer margin, but bicycles still win out. The statistics are similar in The Netherlands, where bicycles are equally popular. Sources: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/transport/trafikulykke... https://swov.nl/en/fact-sheet/r…

Post by bryanlarsen » Fri, May 26, 2023, 10:11 PM UTC

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Elons point on cars being worth 5x as much with self driving shouldn’t be dismissed. If a car that costs $25,000 to manufacture all of a sudden can be driven 40-50 hours a week automatically, how much is that car now worth? So I totally disagree on that end, as do most investors given teslas enormous valuation.

The physical capabilities of the car do not increase with the # of hours it is driven. If you work a car 5x as hard, it will require a similar increase in maintenance and an overall shorter lifetime. (Lifespan. As measured in calendar years, not miles driven) I’m not saying you’re completely wrong on the general concept, but the relationship between value increase and drivable time per week (or whatever unit of time)…

Post by 99_00 » Fri, May 26, 2023, 11:28 PM UTC

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Is it just me, or are these numbers almost low enough to be labelled positive PR? > The Tesla files contain more than 2,400 self-acceleration complaints and more than 1,500 braking function problems, including 139 cases of unintentional emergency braking and 383 reported phantom stops resulting from false collision warnings. The number of crashes is more than 1000. A table of incidents involving driver assistance sys…

People are just not reporting them. My model 3 does something scary at least a few times a month but I've never reported any.

Post by throw9away6 » Sat, May 27, 2023, 12:14 AM UTC

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Nah Tesla is just goosing the government subsidies hard. The ioniq5 is a great car just doesn’t qualify for inflation increase act subsidies

If that's the case, why Tesla easily beats any other opponent overseas as well? Here, in Australia, they do not get any subsidies. Model 3 and Y sales are leaving all others, including Ioniq, far behind.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 27, 2023, 1:01 AM UTC

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Indeed. The difference isn't the type of sensor. This oft repeated argument that Tesla's problems are down to a lack of LIDAR doesn't add up.

Hard disagree. Unless they manage to get a computer as good as a brain, they're going to need all the sensor help they can get.