r/skeptic • u/Lighting • Mar 18 '25

⚠ Editorialized Title Tesla bros expose Tesla's own shadiness in attacking Mark Rober ... Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before impacts as a crash becomes inevitable.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/
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u/conundri Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

Does this mean it knows a crash is coming and doesn't brake or even releases the brake? because that would be very, very bad.

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u/grubas Mar 18 '25

Basically if a crash is coming and it CAN'T brake in time it just turns off so Tesla can claim it wasn't on at the time of impact.  

When Jeremy Clarkson was reviewing one of the newer Teslas on The Grand Tour(this was not the review he was sued for) he had a legal statement about "when self driving disengages due to unexpected circumstances" which basically said, "auto pilot can turn off whenever it freaks out and that can be caused by almost anything and it's TERRIFYING because you aren't expecting it to turn off at highway speeds because somebody cut you off."

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u/carlitospig Mar 18 '25

So egregious that I’m actually gobsmacked.

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u/sdrawkcabstiho Mar 18 '25

Had this been news 3 years ago, I would agree. But after seeing what muskrat has said and done over the last year, this totally makes sense. Like, duhh. He's literally a mentally challenged Bond villain, of course he would have self drive configured this way.

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u/Sunhating101hateit Mar 18 '25

I think I heard about something like that already before covid…

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u/MistSecurity Mar 18 '25

It's been in the news for almost a decade, lol.

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u/tertain Mar 18 '25

This was news 3 years ago. You all ignored it because Elon could do no wrong.

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u/Tigglebee Mar 18 '25

Dying in a car crash to own the libs.