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Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night

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Re: Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night

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Post by superchroma »

Joke product from an unserious company. I wouldn't own this and I would never ever buy it for someone I loved.

My old Honda hasn't tried to kill me yet. I suppose the jury is out on the takata airbag recall but that's fixed now and our relationship can continue with a pristine record of zero murder attempts.

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Post by baz00 »

gameoverhumans wrote: post #3

It still blows my mind that so many people are okay with beta testing software that controls a several-tonne metal box on wheels moving at 100km/h+ on shared roadways.

We're not okay with it. We are however beaten down by every brainwashed fanboy, marketer, investor and news outlet pushing this bubble along to drive some pissy revenue stream though.

That includes those of us who worked on safety critical engineering years ago and know exactly what the fuck we are talking about.

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Post by jacquesm »

At least you're in the car. I'm not, and I'm also at risk, and so is my family. Proximity to Tesla is fortunately higher for Tesla owners so they are probably at higher risk from FSD than the rest of us but you really should not give control of your car to anything that says 'beta' on the tin and that regulators haven't stepped in yet is a complete mystery to me. Given the amount of requirements a vehicle (and a driver!) has to go through to be allowed into traffic in the first place you'd expect that any kind of mission critical software would be required to be put through its paces in a very stringent test environment as well but that seems to be asking too much.

Besides the fact that the next OTA update may well give you a completely different batch of problems.

Re: Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night

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Post by Xenoamorphous »

gameoverhumans wrote: post #3

It still blows my mind that so many people are okay with beta testing software that controls a several-tonne metal box on wheels moving at 100km/h+ on shared roadways.

Right? I get trying beta ir even alpha versions of inconsequential software, but something that can easily kill me? What are these people thinking? It’s mind boggling.

Re: Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night

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Post by jacquesm »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #6
gameoverhumans wrote: post #3

It still blows my mind that so many people are okay with beta testing software that controls a several-tonne metal box on wheels moving at 100km/h+ on shared roadways.

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So? At least they have a driving license. That's not something we can say about this pile of crap. It cost me 2 years of my life, a small fortune at the time and a lot of hassle from the authorities before being allowed to pass so I could join in on this thing called 'traffic' with a vehicle. And I thought that was just fine. Now we get this stuff that is absolutely unverified and that is known to have issues released into traffic as though it is perfectly normal.
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