Tesla Model Driver Killed After Crashing Into Barrier With Autopilot Engaged

[oldschoolfan]

What good is auto pilot if you're supposed to be alert and vigilant?  Might as well have the wheel in your hand then.

you got that right not to mention 5 seconds is not that long

[HTexan]

What good is auto pilot if you're supposed to be alert and vigilant?  Might as well have the wheel in your hand then.

That is the way caddys and nissan versions work. nothing is level 5 yet.

[SOMEPARTS]

[Disgusted]

I own a Tesla and usually I curl up in the back seat and take an anabolic power nap. Tesla is a great car for recovery.

[FleshFlash]

The problem is that some people have been infected by the Elon bug and won't understand that Autopilot is not fully functioning.

[seCrawler]

One Tesla fails after millions of hours of auto-piloting b/c of a moron. Do you blame Porsche or Paul Walker's moron buddy for doing 100mph over 15mph speed bumps?



I look forward to getting a model S in the future

[Disgusted]

The problem is that some people have been infected by the Elon bug and won't understand that Autopilot is not fully functioning.

I actually do have a friend who owns one and we have talked a lot about this. Maybe one day but they are not even close to full auto and you don't take your eyes off the road. What it is good for is "seeing" things before you do so you can react sooner. You can't react if you're reading a book. 

[FleshFlash]

I actually do have a friend who owns one and we have talked a lot about this. Maybe one day but they are not even close to full auto and you don't take your eyes off the road. What it is good for is "seeing" things before you do so you can react sooner. You can't react if you're reading a book. 

This! Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of self-driving tech. The sooner people who shouldn't be allowed to drive get off the road, the better, but right now Autopilot makes people behave even more recklessly, like texting while driving.

[polychronopolous]

Tesla will be bankrupt soon.

I've been saying the same thing for 3 or 4 years now.

[Skylge]

Electric and self driving are great concepts

Teslas are overrated cars, piss poor build quality that people buy up cause of Hollywood and smart marketing like the Prius was hyped, both pieces of garbage

[/i]

The Prius is more reliable than most German cars....focussing on less polluting gas-hybrids was not a hype by Toyota. But a wise choice

Much better approach imo than illegal software running filthy German diesels built by arrogant animal gas chamber experimenting manufacturers.....

Tesla is a decent company.

Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW/Mercedes are not

[Skylge]

Photos of the removed / damaged / unrepaired barrier, prior to the Model X crash:

https://electrek.co/2018/03/30/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-data/


is that's a solid concrete barrier it will be difficult to survive such a hit in any car...

[illuminati]

Ha ha
That’s Hilarious -
And she read them out live on air with serious voice
And no one questioned the names beforehand !!

[Powerlift66]

Walter Wong, an Apple engineer, who was driving the Tesla.

“The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken,”

Asian drivers 

 

[HTexan]

One Tesla fails after millions of hours of auto-piloting b/c of a moron. Do you blame Porsche or Paul Walker's moron buddy for doing 100mph over 15mph speed bumps?



I look forward to getting a model S in the future

I blame paul's moron dumbass buddy for going 100 in a residential area on dry rotted 10 year old tires, in a street legal race car. Yeah, it really sucks that a few stupid asshats ruin shit for the rest of us.

[oldschoolfan]

i worked for a place that did alot of orders for tesla, tesla does not pay its bills on time as well, they do not have much cash on hand, tesla is a joke it loses money on every model it makes.

gm is making more profit of its volt than shitty ass tesla 

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/28/news/companies/tesla-model-3-cash-crunch/index.html

[polychronopolous]

i worked for a place that did alot of orders for tesla, tesla does not pay its bills on time as well, they do not have much cash on hand, tesla is a joke it loses money on every model it makes.

gm is making more profit of its volt than shitty ass tesla 

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/28/news/companies/tesla-model-3-cash-crunch/index.html

Exactly.

I've also been saying to look to short any company with SJW/Leftist principles going forward.

Not an iron clad strategy at this point but something worth considering when selecting your stocks.

[Agnostic007]

hindsight is 20/20 but it seems to me that a company like Tesla would hire some top notch people for these test cars. The last thing you want is something like this to happen so someone with a prior felony wouldn't likely be the best choice. I don't know what they were looking down at but had they been watching as they were likely hired to do, someone would be alive and this PR nightmare wouldn't be happening.

[oldschoolfan]

Exactly.

I've also been saying to look to short any company with SJW/Leftist principles going forward.

Not an iron clad strategy at this point but something worth considering when selecting your stocks.

you got that right it is still baffling to me there stock is trading at such a high number, they do not make any profit at all , they burn through cash and are billions in debt i fail to see how they will even turn a profit or even get out of debt for that matter.

[illuminati]

you got that right it is still baffling to me there stock is trading at such a high number, they do not make any profit at all , they burn through cash and are billions in debt i fail to see how they will even turn a profit or even get out of debt for that matter.

X2

They are billions in debt
Not making profit
Spending vast sums of £
Supplier owed big monies
Poor build quality

And they are a “Successful” Business

Hmmm sounds like a lot of people are going to be financially hurt very badly

Or is there something I’ve missed.