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Or they just kill you themselves.
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Malcolm wrote:Or they just kill you themselves.
Tesla's new record: 1-1.
In late July, Joshua Neally left work and began to drive home in his week-old Tesla Model X, activating the Autopilot feature when he entered the highway. Miles down the road, he felt "the most excruciating pain [he’s] ever had," in his chest, and after calling his wife, decided to go to the nearest emergency room. Neally allowed the car to continue driving on the highway for the next twenty miles, before taking over and guiding the vehicle the remaining couple of miles to the hospital, where he checked himself into the emergency room.

Neally noted that he probably should have simply called an ambulance, and potentially could have put other drivers at risk by continuing to drive. However, the autopilot kept the car in his lane when the embolism occurred, and as he made his way to the hospital.
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The update also disabled the automatic steering if drivers don't keep both hands on the wheel.
See, now, that's just worse. "Oh, it appears you do not have control of the vehicle, so the vehicle will now stop steering for you and leave it in your absent hands."
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You have to keep both hands on the wheel and pretend to drive or the car won't drive for you? That sounds terrible.
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GORDON wrote:You have to keep both hands on the wheel and pretend to drive or the car won't drive for you? That sounds terrible.
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GORDON wrote:You have to keep both hands on the wheel and pretend to drive or the car won't drive for you? That sounds terrible.
Fuck the nanny state.

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GORDON wrote:You have to keep both hands on the wheel and pretend to drive or the car won't drive for you? That sounds terrible.
I cannot imagine the public will accept this level of stupidity.

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I mean, I sure as hell won't buy one with that limitation.
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I'm starting to think Musk isn't nearly as revolutionary in his thinking as people believe. I heard the other day that Tesla is staying afloat with a crap ton of federal dollars. So it'll be interesting to see how they do without an administration with such a hard on for electric cars.

I see Musk as more of a Steve Jobs. I'll repackage other people's work in a very slick package and then feed you what I convince you that you want.
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I'm starting to think that I need to buy one of these super fast cars before it doesn't matter any more due to the fact that all cars are self-driving. I feel like I have 20 years or so.
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There are a lot of places where I don't see how self driving cars will work. In a rural environment, I just don't see how this will work. Farmers and hunters for instance. I pull over from the highway into the grass about 200 yards from my deer stand and walk in. How do I tell my self driving car my destination? How do farmers drive back to where their tractor broke down to repair it, or drop off all the Mexicans that are working in your field?
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Vince wrote:There are a lot of places where I don't see how self driving cars will work. In a rural environment, I just don't see how this will work. Farmers and hunters for instance. I pull over from the highway into the grass about 200 yards from my deer stand and walk in. How do I tell my self driving car my destination? How do farmers drive back to where their tractor broke down to repair it, or drop off all the Mexicans that are working in your field?
The same way those same tractors drive themselves all across the fields already?
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TheCatt wrote:
Vince wrote:There are a lot of places where I don't see how self driving cars will work. In a rural environment, I just don't see how this will work. Farmers and hunters for instance. I pull over from the highway into the grass about 200 yards from my deer stand and walk in. How do I tell my self driving car my destination? How do farmers drive back to where their tractor broke down to repair it, or drop off all the Mexicans that are working in your field?
The same way those same tractors drive themselves all across the fields already?
I'm pretty sure the farmers don't input the driving paths into the tractors. Those are tied into a service that measures soil needs and everything is downloaded to the CPU on the tractor (along with the quantities of needed chemicals for the soil and where to spray how much). But the farmer has to manually drive the tractor to the starting point and it's not done on the fly. Everything is plotted out some time in advance. So going back to my original problem, you're not going to be able to do this stuff that's done today on the fly. And in the case of the self driving tractors, it's not a free do it yourself sort of activity.
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Today... just wait.
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Could be. I just see a lot more obstacles living where I do than people in the cities and suburbs where all destinations have tidy streets and addresses to get the person to them.
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Vroom Vroo -- wait.

Well, anyway, I'm renting one for the weekend. It's kinda awesome.
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OMG it's fun. You touch the pedal and it's OFF... 0 to 60... 5s... I can see why people love them. I wouldn't buy one, it's too expensive for how little I drive... but maybe someday.
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I canceled my Tesla 3 pre-order. Not because of this article, but it sure didn't help.
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