I appreciate that. And in return it does look like Tesla’s recalls are higher than average. And I really dislike calling their driving aids ‘full self driving’. That’s borderline actionable, and I’m surprised they haven’t been sued for it.
Fuck them!
Scroll up. Agencies in the State of California are indeed making a false-and-misleading-advertising claim.
Unless you meant privately sued by a party (or his/her survivors) who relied on the self-driving claims and was injured or killed.
Ugh! I read that story as a young teen and I think it scared me for life.
It’s interesting to speculate on Elmo’s motivations for ElmoU. Two of them have already been suggested. One, a source of labour for his salt mines various industries, initially perhaps free labour in the form of interns, and later a permanent workforce that’s been educated in precisely the right technologies and indoctrinated in Elmo’s values. Two, a workforce that’s not only indoctrinated in Elmo’s specific business values, but more broadly indoctrinated in Elmo’s political extremism. That second one parallels the millions that the Koch Foundation has been pouring into university programs that specifically promote their business values and social policies. Whatever Elmo’s motivations, altruism sure as hell isn’t one of them.
When it bumps the car from Autopilot to regular cruise, the driver is warned visually, aurally, and the wheel vibrates. My VW did the same. I don’t know what else a manufacturer could do to make an inattentive driver more attentive.
Probably not invite inattentiveness with a mode falsely advertised as autonomous driving. Cars are already incredibly dangerous murder machines even without unsafe technology like that.
You mean they can’t do anything about calling it (or advertising/promoting it as) “Full Self-Driving” when it clearly is not fully self-driving? Well, ok then
Why do you want to restrict Free Speech???
It’s hard not to imagine this as the main impetus. “Only I can save them!“ as he rescues those poor, benighted souls by building an entire curriculum around Joe Rogan podcasts.
I don’t know if I would trust a Tesla. Seriously, the CEO is bananas. Who the hell knows what he will program his software to do.
I think you missed 2a (or maybe 4): A workforce personally indebted to his financial organization, since I suspect Elmo’s “X is everything” approach means that he would also be their education lender.
Totally agree.
No kidding. This very fact is one of the reasons I will avoid a Tesla. What happens if Mister Ketamine Crazy Pants suddenly decides to screw with my car (and millions of others) because the Mole-People from Mars told him to?
In other new, Trump hires new speech writer…
Yes, you think that what you would want it to do would be to sound the warning and then have the autodrive take whatever actions it deems necessary to bring the car to a safe stop, unless the driver actively takes back control.
Autopilot is just an advanced cruise. It’s capable of keeping the car in the lane, maintaining a set following distance, and braking when obstacles are in the cars path. That’s all. It can’t pull over and come to a stop. It can’t even change lanes.
So that’s like what pretty much every new car has these days, right? I mean, my wife’s Hyundai has it, my mother-in-law’s Subaru has it, my parents’ Toyota has it. I use the one on the Hyundai all the time, and it works really well. Love it for stop & go traffic as well as cruising along on the highway on a relatively open road. You still have to pay attention, but it’s essentially just adaptive cruise control along with automatic lane centering.
So case in point
One thing the company can easily do but won’t do is stop using terminology that can be misconstrued by all and sundry
Well, that’s because it would impinge on Mr. Free Speech Absolutist’s principled stance on free speech. See the article @Cervaise linked earlier. It’s not fraud, it’s free speech!