Elon Musk is a PIECE OF SHIT!
Speaking of aircraft, I'm thankful that flying cars for everyone is not a reality. It's scary enough what happens out there in only two dimensions.More dimensions are are actually easier to avoid collisions.
It's disabled when the vehicle is in motion, but there might be ways to hack it.
Correct me if I'm wrong -
- but as I understand it, the requirements of an autopilot in an aircraft are extremely different to those of an autonomous car. Even with a flight director engaged, I'm not aware of any collision avoidance actions an aircraft's autopilot can take. It just follows set altitude, speed and direction objectives, trimming the aircraft when it senses it is travelling outside the defined parameters.
A car travelling on a road is a far more challenging exercise.
Correct me if I'm wrong -
- but as I understand it, the requirements of an autopilot in an aircraft are extremely different to those of an autonomous car. Even with a flight director engaged, I'm not aware of any collision avoidance actions an aircraft's autopilot can take. It just follows set altitude, speed and direction objectives, trimming the aircraft when it senses it is travelling outside the defined parameters.
I tend to see it the other way around: the less you need to concentrate on controlling the car the more you can concentrate on the other traffic.
The actuaries in our insurance companies disagree. It cost more to insure an automatic car here, as they are statistically more lightly to have an accident.
In the older group, driving the automatic transmission car improved their driving behaviour regarding the number of driving errors and during the turning left-task (Cohen’s d = 0.60), compared with when they drove the manual transmission car. However, the car with automatic transmission did not affect the driving behaviour for the younger group, except for the turning left-task (Cohen’s d = 0.67).
I love the way EVERYONE is jumping on the bandwagon here and BLAMING THE VICTIM.
This crash was not caused by the Tesla driver or Elon Musk and his engineers.
There WAS a human that made a very bad decision that day - the truck driver turning across oncoming traffic.
I fail to see how this crash (not an accident) could have happened if this truck driver had followed the rules of the road and given way to oncoming traffic.
Can we please remember that salient fact?
In his crash report, Vukovich stated that Scaglione's car was traveling east near mile marker 160, about 5 p.m. when it hit a guard rail "off the right side of the roadway. It then crossed over the eastbound lanes and hit the concrete median."
After that, the Tesla Model X rolled onto its roof and came to rest in the middle eastbound lane.
I love the way EVERYONE is jumping on the bandwagon here and BLAMING THE VICTIM.
This crash was not caused by the Tesla driver or Elon Musk and his engineers.
There WAS a human that made a very bad decision that day - the truck driver turning across oncoming traffic.
I fail to see how this crash (not an accident) could have happened if this truck driver had followed the rules of the road and given way to oncoming traffic.
Can we please remember that salient fact?
There is also the small matter of the victim watching a DVD whilst driving....
I love the way EVERYONE is jumping on the bandwagon here and BLAMING THE VICTIM.
This crash was not caused by the Tesla driver or Elon Musk and his engineers.
There WAS a human that made a very bad decision that day - the truck driver turning across oncoming traffic.
I fail to see how this crash (not an accident) could have happened if this truck driver had followed the rules of the road and given way to oncoming traffic.
I love the way EVERYONE is jumping on the bandwagon here and BLAMING THE VICTIM.
This crash was not caused by the Tesla driver or Elon Musk and his engineers.
There WAS a human that made a very bad decision that day - the truck driver turning across oncoming traffic.
I fail to see how this crash (not an accident) could have happened if this truck driver had followed the rules of the road and given way to oncoming traffic.
Can we please remember that salient fact?
There is also the small matter of the victim watching a DVD whilst driving....
I love the way EVERYONE is jumping on the bandwagon here and BLAMING THE VICTIM.
This crash was not caused by the Tesla driver or Elon Musk and his engineers.
There WAS a human that made a very bad decision that day - the truck driver turning across oncoming traffic.
I fail to see how this crash (not an accident) could have happened if this truck driver had followed the rules of the road and given way to oncoming traffic.
I don't think it's that simple.
Was the Tesla driver observing the speed limit? (The truck driver claimed that the car was speeding.)
Could the truck driver even see the Tesla when he began his turn?
I love the way EVERYONE is jumping on the bandwagon here and BLAMING THE VICTIM.
This crash was not caused by the Tesla driver or Elon Musk and his engineers.
There WAS a human that made a very bad decision that day - the truck driver turning across oncoming traffic.
I fail to see how this crash (not an accident) could have happened if this truck driver had followed the rules of the road and given way to oncoming traffic.
If the vehicle that the truck driver drove in front of to cause this crash was any other car than a Tesla (and I see no reason to believe this outcome couldn't have happened in a manually operated vehicle), we wouldn't be having this conversation and everyone would have just said "stupid truck driver, I hope he gets what he deserves".
Legally, there is a responsible party, can we please remember that salient fact?
Being in the right is useless when you're dead.
Being in the right is useless when you're dead.Would you say that to a murder victim's family?
Also, remember that we apparently only have one living witness to this event - the guy that caused it.
Are we going to take what he says as being absolutely true?
Someone who is clearly in the wrong and is likely to lose his business? And perhaps even face some prison time?
How do we know that he didn't turn directly in front of the Tesla and yet the Tesla driver DID stand on the brakes - the antiskid would have prevented any skid marks - but the distance and time available to him was simply insufficient to reduce the speed enough to avoid a fatal collision? From what I've read it's just speculation that the Tesla driver was completely passive in this event - do we actually know that for sure? Do we have some data from the Tesla's onboard electronics that tell the real story?
If so, I'd like a link (and not to media speculation).
How about we wait a few months for the actual investigation to sift through all this media hyped bullshit?
Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.
Had the Model S impacted the front or rear of the trailer, even at high speed, its advanced crash safety system would likely have prevented serious injury as it has in numerous other similar incidents.
It's literally on the Tesla website: https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss
Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.
Being in the right is useless when you're dead.Would you say that to a murder victim's family?
How about we wait a few months for the actual investigation to sift through all this media hyped bullshit?
It's literally on the Tesla website: https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss
Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied.
And how have Tesla come to that determination?
Just because some PR hack at Tesla motors has said something doesn't necessarlly make it true.
Have Tesla released any hard data from the onboard sensors confirming this "story"?
If not, then why not?
Nope, this story is being made bigger than it really deserves to be - a truck driver fucked up and killed someone. How many times a day does this happen?