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A Tesla Cybertruck crashed in Piedmont last November, killing three college students after hitting a cement wall and bursting into flames.

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) attributed the crash to intoxication and high speed but found that the victims likely died from the fire.

Testimony revealed the vehicle’s doors would not open after the crash, preventing rescue attempts. A survivor was pulled out after a bystander broke a window with a tree branch.

The CHP’s investigation into the crash remains ongoing.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 97 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There are cameras inside the car, it self drives... imagine if it used AI to decide if the driver was Jewish. Or queer. Or just a particular individual who might be thrown out a window were they in Russia. And it steered itself into a wall and burst into flames, destroying any internal telemetry that might tell the story.

The technology is there. The regulatory agencies that might investigate are gutted. There is nothing but the integrity of a few programmers standing in the way. Programmers whose livelihoods and perhaps admission to the US are at stake.

That feels awfully thin.

There's a fucking conspiracy theory for the nutters.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There are cameras inside the car, it self drives… imagine if it used AI to decide if the driver was Jewish. Or queer.

How would a camera determine if you are queer?

Also, I am just imagining the piles of blackmail material Tesla has on it's customers.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

AI. I didn't say it would do a good job, lol. It's a conspiracy theory. It doesn't have to make sense, it just needs to be barely plausible.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

imagine if it used AI to decide if the driver was Jewish. Or queer. Or just a particular individual who might be thrown out a window were they in Russia. And it steered itself into a wall and burst into flames, destroying any internal telemetry that might tell the story.

That's basically how the plot of Upload kicks off, and when I realized "holy crap, that's totally possible".

[–] upandup@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You’re the only other person I have ever heard mention that they had watched that show. I liked it. I thought it was decent, but nobody else seemed to.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh, I think it's great. Can't wait till season 4 drops. Definitely an underrated show especially if you like near future, corporate dystopia black comedies. There's also the meta humor that it runs on Amazon Prime Video.

[–] upandup@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought it was canceled. The last season I saw was season two. I should check out season three!

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

AFAIK, it's not canceled. It just goes forever between 10-episode seasons that always end on a cliffhanger.

Edit: Ah, the upcoming fourth season is the final one.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Four seasons is a pretty good run for this type of show, IMO; at least if it’s as well planned and thought out as The Good Place (not to dissimilar concept) was!

I think I’m also only around ~2 seasons in, as I cancelled Prime a while back.. might have to fly the black flag and catch up on S03!

[–] Masshuru@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I enjoyed it as well! You are not alone, fellow Upload.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another good one with a related theme of technology morality is Made For Love, I think it's from Max

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, now Made for Love was great. Way better than Upload imo.

Damn, I really forgot that show existed until just now...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

It was fine...

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How have I never heard of this show?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't even recall how I heard of it, lol, but it's really good. Definitely one of those hidden gems in the sea of crap-quality streaming shows.

[–] Upgrayedd1776@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If you can get over the weird color saturation thing, it wasnt good enough for me to have that bizarre super bright reds and pinks

[–] afronaut@lemmy.cafe -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Very underrated film. I saw it in theaters and thought everyone was gonna go crazy for it then barely heard anyone talk about it.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] afronaut@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, my bad. I was thinking of Upgrade.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it's an Amazon Prime show?

[–] afronaut@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry, I was thinking of Upgrade lol. After all, we are talking about AI powered vehicles.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think that a lot of the people who would be likely targets for such an attack are the same people who would be buying Teslas in the first place.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Downloaded this earlier from another post
The customer demographic has drastically changed

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

They might well already have Teslas. They are far more likely to drive them (I think) than the good old boys out in the country.