Come for the video of a Tesla Robotaxi driving double the speed limit and hitting speed bumps like they are Mario Kart ramps…
… But stay for the conversation about social media silos and corporate disinformation campaigns!
I just read on the article about how all the “tesla influencers” are refusing to comment on news media and instead insisting they only talk about it on Twitter.
Couldn’t be more manufactured consent if they tried.
That part really pissed me off.
I think folks see it for what it is. Sales are cratering, public spaces that are not twitter are increasingly intolerant of the Tesla fanboys glazing the supposed tech advantage ( that we can see with our own eyes is not real )
Or they’re completely manufactured accounts.
Not mutually exclusive. Why not both?
Looking forward to the headlines: “Tesla Robotaxi passengers need medical attention after Robotaxi hits speed bump at 70mph”
Guy in a Dogecoin t-shirt and a neckbrace: “i-i-it was r-r-really great.”
I read that in RFK Jr.'s voice
Is he the one that sounds like he smokes 30 packs a day?
Yeah but he has a disease that makes him sound like that. If he weren’t such a terrible human being I would feel bad about making fun of him.
I don’t think he and Alex Jones sound exactly the same.
I don’t think Alex Jones has a disease that affects his voice, I think he just yells about psychic vampires so often that’s just what his voice has turned into.
We live in the dumbest timeline.
The sad thing is these things will probably not be taken of the road until a few dozen people have been run over.
They won’t be taken off the road. After the first passengers are hit, they will blame “jaywalkers” and suggest some kind of tracking tech we have to wear.
Tesla bros: “I heard that jaywalker was a TSLA shortseller.”
Oh, the US government is already proposing that.
That language is too active. It’s more like “robot taxi passenger needs medical attention”. “During the ride with a robot taxi a passenger became unwell. It’s unclear at this point what caused the passenger to become dizzy and get a head wound. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk told this reporter that there was no problem at all and that the passenger arrived faster at their destination than initially calculated.”
And these greedy, unscrupulous, technofascist enabling influencers promoted it. This is our current normal apparently.I hate mainstream internet culture with a passion.
On the plus side these cars aren’t going to last long driving like this. They’re heavy too so speed plumps affect them even more harshly.
it was going at full speed while applying the brakes.
The true believers should volunteer to show off the Tesla’s obstacle detection by standing in front of them.
Only time until they do. Just like the ones that broke or crushed their fingers with the Cybertruck
What a moment for Musk to show true leadership.
He would sooner put his own son in the path. He has backups for a reason.
In reality it will be some mom with a van full of kids in front of them.
Man, this makes me wonder if maybe robotaxis might finally be the thing that gets people to take road safety enforcement seriously. Like imagine if Tesla advertises that their taxis will break speed limits because rare speeding fines are trivial to their business. Would this make people actually support speed cameras or hefty speed enforcement fines?
These things are gonna kill so many people…
Not surprising to anyone that ever driven a Tesla, or other brand car really. The speed sign detection only works about 90% of the time, which is fine if you are in control, but for self driving? Had the same with BMW, Mercedes, Renault, Honda. None of the cars I’ve driven over the past years were close to 100% correct with reading signage.
I’ve noticed that, too.
The speed signage is nice when the car picks it up, but I’d call mine 80% accurate. Imperfect, but fine for a driver assist, I know not to rely on it.
Crazy move to put it in a 99.9999%-accuracy-required design.
Google maps knows the speed limit of most roads, why can’t that be used?
Because the “Google thought so” approach is legally problematic.
Ah, that makes sense.
It’s almost as if we need a nationwide GPS driven speed limit detection system, rather than relying on some crappy cameras.
That way manual drivers can be warned if they’re exceeding the limit as well.
Even nationwide GPS speed detection isn’t flawless. What if an accident happens or for road works, then a temporary speed reduction can be applied. The autonomous driving system must be able to detect those situations and handle them gracefully. But also coming out of that temporary speed restricted zone. What if the car doesn’t detect the end of the zone? Then the autonomous vehicle can drive dangerously slow until the next sign.
You could certainly have both systems in place, with it always picking the lowest.
But you do want to avoid daft things, like seeing a parked lorry with “I’m speed to limited to 50” written on it, with the 50 in a red circle, and the car goes “50? Brilliant!” and zooms off past a school.
Delamain this ain’t
is tesla == arasaka? But maybe not, because arasaka is actually competent
