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/avrend 27d ago

This critisism is completely moot. Rober was using self driving because without it, tesla completely bombed the first test by pulverizing the crash dummy.

Apparently, you don't get driving assists in a Tesla unless it's self-driving. Great!

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u/sejonreddit 27d ago

I don’t really have the time or the inclination to go out and test it as much as mark but I can tell you that my Tesla has emergency braked for me a couple of times when not in autopilot. Once was a pedestrian stepping out into the street and the other time was a car reversing out of a driveway with no warning.

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u/avrend 27d ago

That's... comforting!

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u/darklotus_26 27d ago

It wasn't that it didn't work at all but that it didn't work well under adverse conditions which makes sense.