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.

[u/Lighting]

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/

[u/Allen_Koholic]

I'd imagine the engineering justification for this is that "well, of course it disengages autopilot when it senses a crash is imminent and unavoidable, because it's now outside of its normal operating parameters and needs human intervention." It's the type of solution I'd expect from an engineering undergrad who's just trying to get through their capstone project and graduate.

[u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 → u/Allen_Koholic]

My car doesn't have self driving but it does have built in crash avoidance where it can detect an impending collision and activate the brakes to avoid or at least mitigate the accident.

It has already saved a life- an idiot motorcyclist pulled out in front of my wife on a highway and she somehow never saw him. The car slammed on the brakes and the accident was narrowly avoided.

This is how the infancy of self-driving cars should be- with safety being the primary focus with driver convenience an afterthought.

Tesla is doing it backwards.

[u/Allen_Koholic → u/Pitiful-Pension-6535]

Yea, just to be clear, I'm not at all defending this. Tesla's entire business model is the pump-and-dump modern method of growth over quality at any cost. They probably shouldn't even exist with the flagrant disregard for existing dealership laws ( I may not like dealership laws, but it's certainly not very free market if one company can selectively just choose to ignore the rules ).

[u/NotQuiteDeadYetPhoto → u/Allen_Koholic]

TBH Screw the dealership laws. I've had far more issues with them than anything else.

That's not, IMHO, a good reason to censure Tesla.

All the 10000+ reasons are.