Tesla’s recall of 2 million cars relies on a fix that may not even work::Tesla agreed to the recall last week after a federal investigation the system to monitor drivers was defective and required a fix.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:


Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million of its electric vehicles — an effort to have drivers who use its Autopilot system pay closer attention to the road — relies on technology that research shows may not work as intended.

But research conducted by NHTSA, the National Transportation Safety Board and other investigators show that merely measuring torque on the steering wheel doesn’t ensure that drivers are paying sufficient attention.

“I do have concerns about the solution,” said Jennifer Homendy, the chairwoman of the NTSB, which investigated two fatal Florida crashes involving Teslas on Autopilot in which neither the driver nor the system detected crossing tractor trailers.

Missy Cummings, a professor of engineering and computing at George Mason University who studies automated vehicles, said it’s widely accepted by researchers that monitoring hands on the steering wheel is insufficient to ensure a driver’s attention to the road.

But they don’t see well at night, unlike those in General Motors or Ford driver monitoring systems, said Philip Koopman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies vehicle automation safety.

Kelly Funkhouser, associate director of vehicle technology for Consumer Reports, said she was able to use Autopilot on roads that weren’t controlled access highways while testing a Tesla Model S that received the software update.


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Tesla agreed to the recall? Did they really have a choice?

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Here I am hoping that Tesla, Twitter, Space X, and any other brand associated with Elon Musk burn to the fucking ground. Burn baby burn, show this wanna be emperor that he’s wearing nothing at all.

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Poor Boring Company never had a chance…

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Had a chance to cancel a cross state rail project cause elon would rather crowd cars into a tunnel with no fire exit than let people take a fucking train.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/

“Musk later admitted to his biographer that he had never planned to build a Hyperloop system in California, and primarily promoted it in order to prevent conventional HSR proposals from breaking ground.”

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Herrenknecht employees probably still make jokes about how he was going to “improve” the boring machine they built that he bought.

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I got a flamethrower out of it, and Ryerson got a TBM contract out of it. Wasn’t all that bad.

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Tesla’s website says that Autopilot and more sophisticated “Full Self Driving” software cannot drive themselves

Full self driving

Cannot drive themselves

Christ I can smell the bullshit all the way from Canada.

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The “we can do it by end of this year” he’s been toting since 2016 wasn’t a giveaway?

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Dude, sit tight. Full self driving is coming at the end of 2017!

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This is so fucking stupid it actually makes me mad. A tiny percentage of people died misusing the feature and now Tesla is forced to upgrade people to a technology that doesnt exist yet??? For free??? Holy shit this is dumb. Tesla should just relabel it to auto assist or something

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Or a more complete solution to you having a problem with it would be you being in the tiny percentage.

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Buyer’s remorse is rough I take it.

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Buyers remorse of getting a free upgrade? Cope that you cant get free things in one of the 42,000 deaths a year from regular cars while teslas count in 10 years is like 400 total.

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34 points

Off topic but I’ve never seen a more horrible beard on a man.

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It looks like a character creator when they have really low quality hair rendering, so the most beard you can have is a few sparse stubble-like hairs.

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I swear to god, I see so many narcissists with shitty fashion sense and personal appearance awareness.

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you haven’t seen my beard

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