Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 25, 2023, 10:59 PM UTC

liendolucas wrote: post #196

advael wrote: post #6

Gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss 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 For me, cars cross a very key danger threshold, which I express like this: "I am tru…

I'll go a bit further... Do we really need computers on four wheels? Can't we just have simple electric vehicles without all the high-tech? No distracting screens, no computer for other than just governing the electric engine, no fancy car locks, and so on. I don't understand why we need to put so much technology in a vehicle. Honestly, it seems to me that is absolutely unnecessary tech, ridiculous. I'd like to have…

Post by sidibe » Thu, May 25, 2023, 11:00 PM UTC

1970-01-01 wrote: post #244

dmbche wrote: post #159

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Don't know that it's a fallacy, it's more that the question you ask is impossible to answer - it's impossible to have a number for how many crashes were prevented. But we do have a number for crashes caused by. So we work off of that - if Telsa want's to argue they are safer, I'd love for them to devise some way to prove it, but I can't see that happening.

Forbes did this with stats. They concluded autopilot was not causing accidents. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/28/new-te...

Post by manquer » Thu, May 25, 2023, 11:00 PM UTC

orpheansodality wrote: post #198

pacetherace wrote: post #121

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in most commutes, if your tailing distance is too much, someone will else will come in front of you.

if you think about the speeds involved, a single additional car in front of you on the freeway (or even any additional cars) adds pretty miniscule time to the total commute. Let's compare a few situations. In the baseline you're tailing the car in front of you with a focus on not letting anyone cheat and get in front of you, let's say 50 feet away. Your commute is 30 miles, and in this frictionless sphere of traffic…

Post by manquer » Thu, May 25, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

sushid wrote: post #149

pacetherace wrote: post #121

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in most commutes, if your tailing distance is too much, someone will else will come in front of you.

That's fine. You lose like .5 seconds of your life when another car comes in front of you.

Post by acaloiar » Thu, May 25, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

iknowstuff wrote: post #97

sandofsky wrote: post #91

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When a Toyota hid an “unintended acceleration” bug, it was a scandal that resulted in a $1.2B fine. https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-pay-12b-hiding-deadly-...

Every customer complaint about unintended acceleration of Teslas was proven in court to be the fault of the customer confusing the pedals. The accelerator pedal has two independent sensors measuring input - they both have to agree, and no input on the brake pedal must be detected for the vehicle to accelerate. They go a step further. They use their cameras to detect the environment and significantly slow down acceler…