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!
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.
Yeah, it’s so horrible especially when it reads a speed limit from an adjacent road or, even worse, from a label on the back of a truck
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.
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.
These things are gonna kill so many people…
Delamain this ain’t
is tesla == arasaka? But maybe not, because arasaka is actually competent
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”
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 )
Or they’re completely manufactured accounts.
Not mutually exclusive. Why not both?
Looking forward to the headlines: “Tesla Robotaxi passengers need medical attention after Robotaxi hits speed bump at 70mph”
it was going at full speed while applying the brakes.
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.”
The sad thing is these things will probably not be taken of the road until a few dozen people have been run over.
They won’t be taken off the road. After the first passengers are hit, they will blame “jaywalkers” and suggest some kind of tracking tech we have to wear.
Oh, the US government is already proposing that.
Tesla bros: “I heard that jaywalker was a TSLA shortseller.”
Guy in a Dogecoin t-shirt and a neckbrace: “i-i-it was r-r-really great.”
I read that in RFK Jr.'s voice
Is he the one that sounds like he smokes 30 packs a day?
Yeah but he has a disease that makes him sound like that. If he weren’t such a terrible human being I would feel bad about making fun of him.
I don’t think he and Alex Jones sound exactly the same.
I don’t think Alex Jones has a disease that affects his voice, I think he just yells about psychic vampires so often that’s just what his voice has turned into.
We live in the dumbest timeline.
And these greedy, unscrupulous, technofascist enabling influencers promoted it. This is our current normal apparently.I hate mainstream internet culture with a passion.
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…
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?
https://i.imgur.com/8mz2vh0.png
This you?
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.
Pretty bold claim. Who can we trust in this scenario? How do we trust you?
We don’t.
Oh shit 😆👍 Thanks for the clarity. I knew my gut feeling was tingling in the right frequency in this case.
Well you can check the site yourself, that ain’t too hard to do
I did, and now I did again. I don’t see/understand any clues to it being a “fake website” after browsing around and looking at various pages and articles. 🤷♂️ Can somebody help me understand? (Besides the condescending “just look at it”, thanks!)
