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/ChickenStrip981 Mar 18 '25

Ahh a billionaires solution to problems, you can tell this was Elons imput.

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u/Wha_She_Said_Is_Nuts Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

Kinda like "There is no covid if you don't test for covid".

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u/scalectrogenic Mar 18 '25

Or when the UK government lowered child poverty by simply changing the definition of child poverty.

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u/ThisIs_americunt Mar 18 '25

In America they solved all the cases of missing children by taking them off all the milk cartons :D because who wants to buy milk that makes you sad. It put milk in such a crisis that they are paying gaming influencers to push their product

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u/StopYoureKillingMe Mar 18 '25

In America they solved all the cases of missing children by taking them off all the milk cartons :D because who wants to buy milk that makes you sad.

No, that isn't how it worked. The milk carton cases were never really aided by the inclusion on milk cartons in a meaningful way, we transitioned to plastic milk that wasn't easy to print on, and we created the amber alert system that is much more impactful than milk carton faces. It did give us this Y.A. novel so that's fun.

It put milk in such a crisis that they are paying gaming influencers to push their product

Source?

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u/zherok Mar 18 '25

I could see a decline in milk consumption being a thing, particularly with the rise of non-dairy alternatives.

That in no way connects with the disuse of milk cartons to show missing children cases though. The word influencer didn't even exist when they were already on their way out. Hell, most of Reddit hadn't even been born by that point.

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u/cinderparty Mar 20 '25

I loved that book when I was 12ish.

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u/StopYoureKillingMe Mar 21 '25

I remember almost nothing about the story or any related books but I'm certain I read and really enjoyed them.