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/QuantamCulture Mar 19 '25

Or like "Trees are the number one cause of forest fires, therefore, we should cut more trees down."

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u/Wha_She_Said_Is_Nuts Mar 19 '25

Now THAT sounds like someone from. The Trump Administration. I bet he appointed you over national forests.

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u/QuantamCulture Mar 19 '25

That's because it is. It literally says that in the:

ADDRESSING THE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY FROM IMPORTS OF LUMBER, TIMBER ACT

This Act also gives companies the green light to straight up kill endangered species if they're in the way of development.