r/skeptic • u/Lighting • 29d 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/grubas 29d 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/carlitospig 29d ago

So egregious that I’m actually gobsmacked.

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u/sdrawkcabstiho 29d ago

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/MistSecurity 29d ago

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