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Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

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Re: Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

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s1artibartfast wrote: post #96
sparky_z wrote: post #84

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And doorbell footage of the crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_Y_yf84m8 Holy shit, it looks like it was going at full highway speeds (at least) in a residential neighborhood. Doesn't look like it attempts to stop or steer away at any point. This seems like the outcome one would expect from a passed-out driver and a stuck accelerator. I'm honestly amazed that the driver survived.

Yeah, would be interesting to see what the cause is. These things do happen from time to time with cars

Sometimes, it just happens. People explode. Natural causes.

Re: Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

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ben_w wrote: post #112
Reason077 wrote: post #86

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Oh, I absolutely agree. Ideally Telsa would dump the old Autopilot stack and put all cars (that have the hardware to support it) on a free version of FSD, nerfed so that it's roughly feature-equivalent to Autopilot. That way everyone would get the safety advantages of FSD, including the really important stuff like better driver attention monitoring. Unfortunately, Tesla keeps Autopilot bad because it forces more peop…

> Unfortunately, Tesla keeps Autopilot bad because it forces more people to pay for FSD, and in this case they seem to care more about profits than safety. Not saying you're wrong, but I think "it forces people to pay for FSD" is a poor decision if true. More likely it creates market confusion (as we see in this thread) about exactly which of the two products that Tesla advertises as things which drive your car for y…

That the reporting is so tortured sort of shows this works. It’s irrelevant in a broad or legal context. But for the narrow audience of his fans, it carries merit.

Re: Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed

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Post by ben_w »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #122
ben_w wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Unfortunately, Tesla keeps Autopilot bad because it forces more people to pay for FSD, and in this case they seem to care more about profits than safety. Not saying you're wrong, but I think "it forces people to pay for FSD" is a poor decision if true. More likely it creates market confusion (as we see in this thread) about exactly which of the two products that Tesla advertises as things which drive your car for y…

That the reporting is so tortured sort of shows this works. It’s irrelevant in a broad or legal context. But for the narrow audience of his fans, it carries merit.

When you say this, do you have in mind that "his fans" are the customers, or the shareholders?

I ask because he has made about as much from the latter as Tesla has made from the former.

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