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Tesla's recall of 2 million cars relies on a fix that may not even work::Tesla agreed to the recall last week after a federal investigation the system to monitor drivers was defective and required a fix.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Tesla’s website says that Autopilot and more sophisticated “Full Self Driving” software cannot drive themselves

Full self driving

Cannot drive themselves

Christ I can smell the bullshit all the way from Canada.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The "we can do it by end of this year" he's been toting since 2016 wasn't a giveaway?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dude, sit tight. Full self driving is coming at the end of 2017!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here I am hoping that Tesla, Twitter, Space X, and any other brand associated with Elon Musk burn to the fucking ground. Burn baby burn, show this wanna be emperor that he’s wearing nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Poor Boring Company never had a chance...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Had a chance to cancel a cross state rail project cause elon would rather crowd cars into a tunnel with no fire exit than let people take a fucking train.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/

“Musk later admitted to his biographer that he had never planned to build a Hyperloop system in California, and primarily promoted it in order to prevent conventional HSR proposals from breaking ground.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Herrenknecht employees probably still make jokes about how he was going to "improve" the boring machine they built that he bought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I got a flamethrower out of it, and Ryerson got a TBM contract out of it. Wasn't all that bad.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Off topic but I've never seen a more horrible beard on a man.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

It looks like a character creator when they have really low quality hair rendering, so the most beard you can have is a few sparse stubble-like hairs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I swear to god, I see so many narcissists with shitty fashion sense and personal appearance awareness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

you haven't seen my beard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million of its electric vehicles — an effort to have drivers who use its Autopilot system pay closer attention to the road — relies on technology that research shows may not work as intended.

But research conducted by NHTSA, the National Transportation Safety Board and other investigators show that merely measuring torque on the steering wheel doesn’t ensure that drivers are paying sufficient attention.

“I do have concerns about the solution,” said Jennifer Homendy, the chairwoman of the NTSB, which investigated two fatal Florida crashes involving Teslas on Autopilot in which neither the driver nor the system detected crossing tractor trailers.

Missy Cummings, a professor of engineering and computing at George Mason University who studies automated vehicles, said it’s widely accepted by researchers that monitoring hands on the steering wheel is insufficient to ensure a driver’s attention to the road.

But they don’t see well at night, unlike those in General Motors or Ford driver monitoring systems, said Philip Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies vehicle automation safety.

Kelly Funkhouser, associate director of vehicle technology for Consumer Reports, said she was able to use Autopilot on roads that weren’t controlled access highways while testing a Tesla Model S that received the software update.


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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Tesla agreed to the recall? Did they really have a choice?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

A better solution, experts say, would be to require Tesla to use cameras to monitor drivers’ eyes to make sure they’re watching the road. Some Teslas do have interior-facing cameras. But they don’t see well at night, unlike those in General Motors or Ford driver monitoring systems, said Philip Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies vehicle automation safety.

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