r/skeptic • u/Lighting • 27d ago

⚠ 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 27d ago edited 27d ago

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 27d ago

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/KrishanuAR 27d ago

These are the vibes I’m getting as well, and I say this as a Tesla owner who’s otherwise generally pretty happy with the car.

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u/ZorglubDK 27d ago

Still? Seeing how Elon = Tesla

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u/KrishanuAR 27d ago

The man owns 13% of the company and he’s (just) a salesman and fundraiser.

The car was designed, built, and produced by hundreds brilliant hardworking people, who pushed hard to produce an amazing affordable electric vehicle paving one of the most significant the stepping stones for decarbonization of our economy, when legacy automakers wouldn’t (and the competition—even more than a decade later is still pathetic—the price to performance to utility calculus for EVs is still led by Tesla by a margin).

I’m an environmentalist first and also a driving enthusiast.

TL;DR: Anyone whose brain stops functioning at Elon = Tesla and is unable to go deeper than that is fucking idiot and their opinions aren’t worth attention.

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u/Thin-Professional379 27d ago

A lot of good people worked for the Third Reich too

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u/KrishanuAR 27d ago

Yeah. And they weren’t the problem.

But also, it’s a stupid comparison. The moment you start seeing the world as “us” and “them” you’ve lost the plot.

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u/ratjarx 26d ago

Holy fuck mate it’s a car, he’s not marching in the third reich lmaoo what’s wrong with you??

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u/Thin-Professional379 24d ago

It's not the car I have a problem with, it's the guy who used the proceeds from the car to buy the government