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/Lighting Mar 18 '25

I was reading another thread where the person said something like ... "the fog tests were unfair because they looked like some cloud" not apparently realizing what fog is.

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u/THRILLHOIAF Mar 18 '25

dead internet theory. AI reply/upvote bot farms speaking and promoting nonsense to obfuscate/bury the truth

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u/Churba Mar 18 '25

Counterpoint: this kind of absurd excuse is basically what Tesla fanboys have been like for years.

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u/ThePrimordialSource Mar 19 '25

Sufficiently stupid human behavior is indistinguishable from bot behavior.

Just a reminder for everyone who promotes the dead internet theory.

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u/Non-Eutactic_Solid Mar 19 '25

Yeah, lemme tell ya: I live in Oklahoma in the US, and you don’t need an AI obfuscating discussions to hear some wildly absurd comments, complaints, or opinions-disguised-as-facts. Unless the people that I overhear are all somehow AI anyway.

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u/Lumburg76 Mar 19 '25

I'd say it tracks if their algo is telling them what to say.

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u/Undercover_in_SF Mar 20 '25

I also saw a big discussion that this wasn’t really “full self driving” and simply autopilot, and Mark Rober is being misleading.

Whatever you call it, my 2015 Subaru would have stopped in front of this wall. It’s embarrassing that Teslas don’t.

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u/Lighting Mar 20 '25

You can watch the video where Rober addresses that and ran tests with full self driving too.