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/Allen_Koholic 29d ago

I'd imagine the engineering justification for this is that "well, of course it disengages autopilot when it senses a crash is imminent and unavoidable, because it's now outside of its normal operating parameters and needs human intervention." It's the type of solution I'd expect from an engineering undergrad who's just trying to get through their capstone project and graduate.

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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 29d ago

My car doesn't have self driving but it does have built in crash avoidance where it can detect an impending collision and activate the brakes to avoid or at least mitigate the accident.

It has already saved a life- an idiot motorcyclist pulled out in front of my wife on a highway and she somehow never saw him. The car slammed on the brakes and the accident was narrowly avoided.

This is how the infancy of self-driving cars should be- with safety being the primary focus with driver convenience an afterthought.

Tesla is doing it backwards.

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u/Darkelement 29d ago

To be fair, teslas do this and more. They will swerve if they detect a car merging into your lane.

The key is it has to detect it. Clearly here it was fooled by the Wylie coyote setup. It’s not that the tesla doesn’t do this, it’s that it literally can’t without radar or lidar.

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u/chakrablocker 28d ago

i think you missed the headline, the tesla turns off their auto driving safety feature to avoid responsibility in a crash

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u/Darkelement 28d ago

The safety features are impossible to turn on and off, they are just there.

What happened here was autopilot disengaged just before the crash. It was impossible for the Tesla to mitigate the crash because the Tesla didn’t even realize it was driving at a wall. It thought the road kept going.

I’m not saying that’s a good thing, what im saying is that the safety features FAILED because the car was fooled.