Tesla vehicle in Full-Self Driving mode appeared to fail to detect a moving train and stop on its own, leading to a chaotic accident.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-owner-says-cars-self-driving-mode-fsd-train-crash-video-rcna153345
@w7voa I am impressed, people still want to pay to be Elon Musk's human crash test dummies.
@FirefighterGeek @pieist @randahl @w7voa it might be simpler, safer, more reliable and less costly to develop good transit systems that integrate with/ support bicycle based .
Certainly the case in urban/suburban settings; rural settings admittedly more complicated
@PaulWermer @pieist @randahl @w7voa My point is that some people like my daughter are very limited in where they can live because they must rely on transit. I'm all for trains. My daughter is taking the train to visit us from Boston tomorrow. It's 3+ hours for her on the train, and it's more than an hour drive from me to the nearest stop they reach, but it still helps a lot.
Clearly he not only had self-drive enabled, but also self-park and self-read-traffic-control-signs as well.
(Now if they just implemented self-tip-the-valet, there'd be no need for a driver at all.)
I know several Tesla owners, and none would have bought a Tesla had they known then what an evil dick Elon Musk is.
"Base on my intimate personal knowledge of an embarrassingly large number of Tesla owners, I still think the problem isn't so much with its self-driving technology as with the sort of people who would use it, and when."
@pieist @randahl @w7voa I REALLY want true, trustworthy FSD cars that can go endpoint to endpoint. While I prefer to drive, there have been times that I'm too tired and had long drives back from an airport after a day of travel where it would definitely have been safer. There are also people who must live in major cities because the cannot drive for medical reasons.