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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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xvector ◴[19 Oct 24 01:50 UTC] No.41885023[source]▶
My Tesla routinely tries to kill me on absolutely normal California roads in normal sunny conditions, especially when there are cars parked on the side of the road (it often brakes thinking I'm about to crash into them, or even swerves into them thinking that's the "real" lane).

Elon's Unsupervised FSD dreams are a good bit off. I do hope they happen though.

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dzhiurgis[dead post] ◴[19 Oct 24 02:23 UTC] No.41885170[source]▶
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dyauspitr ◴[19 Oct 24 02:28 UTC] No.41885189[source]▶
Emergency breaking will sure as hell kill you or at least the person behind you when you’re going 75 or 80 in the first lane.
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BobaFloutist ◴[19 Oct 24 04:16 UTC] No.41885598[source]▶
I'm not a fan of Elon, Tesla, or "FSD", but for what it's worth, that's absolutely the fault of the person behind you for not maintaining appropriate stopping distance.
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dyauspitr ◴[20 Oct 24 02:10 UTC] No.41892371[source]▶
I would say less than 5% of people maintain the required 30-50ft of recommended distance needed to stop safely at those speeds.
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1. BobaFloutist ◴[20 Oct 24 15:29 UTC] No.41895938[source]▶
Then I guess they're not skilled enough to be granted the privilege of driving at those speeds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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2. Schiendelman ◴[20 Oct 24 17:54 UTC] No.41897165[source]▶
You can work backwards from this - the vast majority of people in the US don't agree with that statement. You might be able to get them there, if Americans didn't have to be as car dependent due to their built environment. But because so many people are already car dependent, it's hard to make those changes.

The one theory of change I think is approachable suggests allowing dramatic increases in density in places that are not car dependent - the people who live there are much more likely to agree with us, so letting the number of people who live there 10x or even 100x could lead to this kind of change you propose.