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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!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The true believers should volunteer to show off the Tesla's obstacle detection by standing in front of them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Only time until they do. Just like the ones that broke or crushed their fingers with the Cybertruck

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What a moment for Musk to show true leadership.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He would sooner put his own son in the path. He has backups for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

In reality it will be some mom with a van full of kids in front of them.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 )

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or they're completely manufactured accounts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Not mutually exclusive. Why not both?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Looking forward to the headlines: "Tesla Robotaxi passengers need medical attention after Robotaxi hits speed bump at 70mph"

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Guy in a Dogecoin t-shirt and a neckbrace: "i-i-it was r-r-really great."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I read that in RFK Jr.'s voice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is he the one that sounds like he smokes 30 packs a day?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

We live in the dumbest timeline.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

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.”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The sad thing is these things will probably not be taken of the road until a few dozen people have been run over.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Tesla bros: "I heard that jaywalker was a TSLA shortseller."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

And these greedy, unscrupulous, technofascist enabling influencers promoted it. This is our current normal apparently.I hate mainstream internet culture with a passion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These things are gonna kill so many people...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Google maps knows the speed limit of most roads, why can't that be used?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not super reliable, one road near me is 25mph and google says it's 65mph.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Oh, well that answered that question. Get your shit together tech bros

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because the "Google thought so" approach is legally problematic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ah, that makes sense.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (5 children)

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....

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Pretty bold claim. Who can we trust in this scenario? How do we trust you?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Oh shit 😆👍 Thanks for the clarity. I knew my gut feeling was tingling in the right frequency in this case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well you can check the site yourself, that ain't too hard to do

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

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!)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Oh man it was just blasting through those speed bumps lmao.

"nice"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

is tesla == arasaka? But maybe not, because arasaka is actually competent

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