Comment on New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times

CaptainProton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I turned off the “lane assist” in our Mazda because it kept steering me back toward obstacles I was trying to avoid, like cyclists, oversized loads, potholes, etc. I don’t know why anyone thought that was a good idea.

    But try buying a car without those features now…sigh.

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    • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Use your turn signal to indicate your direction change and it won’t do that.

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      • doggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you’re swerving to avoid a sudden obstacle you reasonably may not have the foresight or reaction to flip on a signal. The car still needs to not force you back on collision course.

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      • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Even moving over slightly in the lane to avoid a pothole triggers it; it doesn’t seem like a turn signal should be necessary in that situation. Instead the situation seems to be that I’m seeing the pothole and altering the car’s course gently to avoid it, and I get close to the line and it freaks out.

        I guess if I drove right up to the obstacle then swerved, it wouldn’t do it…but I was always taught swerving was a last-resort thing, best to drive as smoothly as possible. (This was my dad’s argument, and I said, “Uh, SOMEONE taught me to not swerve unless it was necessary…” (him). He laughed.

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  • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree. More regulation may be necessary, but it isn’t a cure-all. It can’t be relied upon to prevent people from being stupid.

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• chris2112@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The driver is responsible for this accident, Tesla still should be liable imo for all the shady and outright misleading advertising around their so called “self driving”. Compare Tesla’s marketing to like GMs of Hyundai’s, both of which essentially have parity with Teslas system in terms of actual features, and you’ll see a big difference

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• doggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like the injured officers are suing. It’s a civil case not criminal, so I’m not sure how much the court would actually be asked to legislate. I’d be interested to hear their arguments, though I’m sure part of their reasoning for suing Tesla over the driver is they have more money.

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• dzire187@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It should be pulling over and putting the flashers on if a driver is unresponsive.

  Yes. Actually, just stopping in the middle of the road with hazard lights would be sufficient.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You say that yet a Tesla did exactly that, which caused some tailgaters to crash into the back of it, and everyone blamed the Tesla for causing an accident.

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