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US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

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410 points jjulius | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TheAlchemist ◴[20 Oct 24 08:08 UTC] No.41893777[source]▶
Tesla released a promotional video in 2016 saying that with FSD a human driver is not necessary and that "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons". The video was staged as we've learned in 2022.

2016 folks... Even with today's FSD which is several orders of magnitude better than the one in the video, you would still probably have a serious accident within a week (and I'm being generous here) if you didn't seat in the driver's seat.

How Trevor Milton got sentenced for fraud and the people responsible for this were not is a mystery to me.

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throw627004[dead post] ◴[20 Oct 24 12:49 UTC] No.41895029[source]▶
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mglz ◴[20 Oct 24 12:57 UTC] No.41895071[source]▶
> Why is he trying to buy a president in the first place?

Because he can make more money under one than the other.

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1. throw627004 ◴[20 Oct 24 13:26 UTC] No.41895236[source]▶
Obviously yeah, but I do think his odd fervor in this allows us to speculate that there are some threats to his businesses that are not well understood publicly, and that would be solved by becoming a sort of American oligarch.
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2. throw627004 ◴[21 Oct 24 09:46 UTC] No.41902370[source]▶
It's really not much of a stretch.

In addition to the risks to Tesla raised upthread, SpaceX needs an ambitious space program, and Mars program specifically along the lines of Musk's ideas.

Capturing the US government is a great way to get there.