Robotaxi Drives Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed… Tesla Influencers Describe It as “Excellent.”
Robotaxi Drives Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed… Tesla Influencers Describe It as “Excellent.”
Here is video of a Tesla Robotaxi driving at twice the speed limit down Austin streets and over speed bumps. Oh, and it sees a deer! This drive is a good illustration of Tesla’s FSD suite being almost ready for use on public roads. Unfortunately, “almost” is good enough for horseshoes and hand grena...
Come for the video of a Tesla Robotaxi driving double the speed limit and hitting speed bumps like they are Mario Kart ramps...
... But stay for the conversation about social media silos and corporate disinformation campaigns!
I just read on the article about how all the "tesla influencers" are refusing to comment on news media and instead insisting they only talk about it on Twitter.
Couldn't be more manufactured consent if they tried.
That part really pissed me off.
I think folks see it for what it is. Sales are cratering, public spaces that are not twitter are increasingly intolerant of the Tesla fanboys glazing the supposed tech advantage ( that we can see with our own eyes is not real )
Looking forward to the headlines: "Tesla Robotaxi passengers need medical attention after Robotaxi hits speed bump at 70mph"
That language is too active. It’s more like “robot taxi passenger needs medical attention”. “During the ride with a robot taxi a passenger became unwell. It’s unclear at this point what caused the passenger to become dizzy and get a head wound. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk told this reporter that there was no problem at all and that the passenger arrived faster at their destination than initially calculated.”
And these greedy, unscrupulous, technofascist enabling influencers promoted it. This is our current normal apparently.I hate mainstream internet culture with a passion.
On the plus side these cars aren’t going to last long driving like this. They’re heavy too so speed plumps affect them even more harshly.
it was going at full speed while applying the brakes.
The true believers should volunteer to show off the Tesla's obstacle detection by standing in front of them.
Only time until they do. Just like the ones that broke or crushed their fingers with the Cybertruck
What a moment for Musk to show true leadership.
He would sooner put his own son in the path. He has backups for a reason.
In reality it will be some mom with a van full of kids in front of them.
The source is a fake website with the only articles being about criticizing Tesla. I am not a fan of Tesla or Musk, to say the least, but this is no better than X's propaganda....
Edit: Aren't you a mod on the SpaceX board? I'm not sure I trust you when you say you're "not a fan of Tesla or Musk" considering you run a fan club for one of Musk's companies XD
I'm the automotive equivalent of a muckraker, so yeah, Tesla does enough weird stuff that I talk about them a lot. They're hardly the ONLY news I cover.
Take this article, for instance, it was on the front page of Hacker News for a couple days, got decent circulation in European automotive magazines, too: https://fuelarc.com/tech/pop-up-ads-in-your-jeep-the-latest-stellantis-innovation/
Believe what you like, but the videos in that article are just videos, it's not like those aren't first-hand driving footage just because you dislike where you found them.
I know you don’t live here so you can just be relaxed and ummm acckktually from behind your keyboard. But please understand that real humans live on the streets that this dangerous machine is careening through, and it’s only a matter of time before it kills someone. Intentional acts of violence must be stopped immediately, and they don’t need a devil’s advocate. Please watch any of the footage from the last 3 days of operation, it’s very straightforward and clear to any observer just how fucked up and dangerous these machines are.
https://i.imgur.com/8mz2vh0.png
This you?
Pretty bold claim. Who can we trust in this scenario? How do we trust you?
We don't.
That was a pretty real video of it going twice the speed limit and trying to launch them to space over the speed bumps... what's YOUR agenda?
These things are gonna kill so many people...
Man, this makes me wonder if maybe robotaxis might finally be the thing that gets people to take road safety enforcement seriously. Like imagine if Tesla advertises that their taxis will break speed limits because rare speeding fines are trivial to their business. Would this make people actually support speed cameras or hefty speed enforcement fines?
Oh man it was just blasting through those speed bumps lmao.
"nice"
Not surprising to anyone that ever driven a Tesla, or other brand car really. The speed sign detection only works about 90% of the time, which is fine if you are in control, but for self driving? Had the same with BMW, Mercedes, Renault, Honda. None of the cars I've driven over the past years were close to 100% correct with reading signage.
I've noticed that, too.
The speed signage is nice when the car picks it up, but I'd call mine 80% accurate. Imperfect, but fine for a driver assist, I know not to rely on it.
Crazy move to put it in a 99.9999%-accuracy-required design.
It's almost as if we need a nationwide GPS driven speed limit detection system, rather than relying on some crappy cameras.
That way manual drivers can be warned if they're exceeding the limit as well.
Even nationwide GPS speed detection isn't flawless. What if an accident happens or for road works, then a temporary speed reduction can be applied. The autonomous driving system must be able to detect those situations and handle them gracefully. But also coming out of that temporary speed restricted zone. What if the car doesn't detect the end of the zone? Then the autonomous vehicle can drive dangerously slow until the next sign.
Delamain this ain't
is tesla == arasaka? But maybe not, because arasaka is actually competent
