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So motorcyclists weren't enough, they're going after kids now? Did they move their headquarters to israel?
rofl
Let's not get carried away pretending America cares too much about children dying frfr.
Yeah the draconian punishment and outcry when someone dares to overtake a school bus is absolutely laughable.
Give that child chance to be shot the next day in school! Or starve to death, because they can't afford school lunches.
Yeah once they're out of the womb, fuck 'em. We only care about the unborn.
They don't actually care about the unborn either. They just want women to suffer, that's always been the only goal.
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Much like the mass shootings in the U.S., there's literally no solution for this. /s
Well, what are we 'aposta do?!
Strangle these defenseless corporations with the same kind of regulations we continue to create and impose on small businesses? Do you even know who their father is?!
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They know these things are going to kill people; it's just inevitable.
Engineers are well aware of there being a cost-benefit analysis for saving human lives. O'Grady from Practical Engineering did a great video explaining how much a human life is worth to engineers. I think it was a little under $60k.
The purpose of reducing government oversight as much as possible is so that the cost of killing people is as low as possible.
It's not an on/off switch of government regulation. They know that every additional policy they can shift in their favor will translate to increased profits down the line as people inevitably die from these things.
Some of you may die~
But it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Fight Club taught me the cost of human life to corporations.
If PredictedLawsuitLosses < CostOfRecall then RecallNotAnnounced
Human life doesn't factor in at all for them.
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The children were hamas obviously
“And if you don’t support killing them, you support terrorists, mmmkaaaaayyyy” — Bill Maher
They were behind white genocide in South Africa
So, the USA people are the beta testers, i guess.
Put some respect to their name, off course they are alpha (males!) testers.
only Texans... (with the robotaxis)
Texas state legislature has passed a law making it illegal for cities to pass laws more restrictive than the state laws and Austin which is known to be full of progressives. This makes it a perfect place for Tesla to beta-test it's software. They'll kill people likely to vote for Democrats.
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Texas releasing these things in public is horrifying. Tesla is last in this field, and refuses to add LIDAR, which is obviously what is needed.
My $60 robot vacuum has lidar....
Maybe you can get a business going mounting roombas on Tesla bumpers?
Call it clean energy
I award you the dubious honor of "Best Pun on the Thread"
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They should throw in a loony tunes landscape for extra comedic value.
Mark Rober already did that.
I guess there's going to be a lot of heroes popping Robo-Taxi tires. To protect their community and all that.
I recall that people blocked Waymo cars at one point by simply placing orange cones in front of them. Given Teslas only use cameras I wonder if you could just slap a sticker of an orange cone (or just a splash of orange paint) on the hood and confuse it enough that it wouldn’t move…
Edit: Or, if you really want to be a dick, get some black stickers (the stronger the glue the better) and surreptitiously put them over one or more cameras.
Given Teslas only use cameras
This still blows my mind. My fucking robot vacuum uses LiDAR, and multi-ton vehicles on public roads use cameras? Jesus Christ.
"Well you see lidar cameras are expensive. Yeah... that's the excuse. No more questions" - Tesla whenever they are asked to explain themselves
Actually the excuse Musk uses is that humans only use their eyes to drive, so that’s enough for cars as well.
Wrong on so many levels…
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This one is pretty unforgivable. Supposedly the ability to detect these situations was added in December (according to the article) but it's clearly not working very well. Something like this should 100% pause the rollout of robo-taxis.
For normal cars though, the drivers should press the brakes to disable FSD when they see their car not slowing down when approaching a stopped bus like this.
Except the big danger with fully self driving cars is that drivers are not paying attention at all as they have nothing to do most of the time. They'll be on their phones regardless of what theyre supposed to do and that will cause deaths. So such a glaring safety flaw will have numerous opportunities to happen in real life - humans do not make good safety features in cars; thats what the self drive stuff was for.
Teslas self drive technology is not fit for the roads regardless of this. Musk had sensors stripped out pf the cars design to save money because apparently he knows better than all the worlds self drive engineers. The guy is a just an investment bro woth a huge ego - he can't let the people hes investing in get onwith it, because he sees himself as a "genius". The guys a moron.
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Elon is not going to personally take responsibility for his cars?
Tesla self driving is already responsible for the deaths of multiple people.
They weren't held accountable for those.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
If regular school shootings were no reason to actually do something, why would regular deadly accidents with self driving systems be one? I'm always amazed by what Americans are willing to tolerate.
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Move fast and break things!
A German party campaigned under the slogan "Digital first. Bedenken second" (Sic, i.e. mostly english). Bedenken means concerns.
They were punished pretty hard last election.
Move fast and break ~~things~~ schoolchildren!
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I knew I was better than a Tesla. I actually got my Class A for driving a school bus. I can legally drive pretty much anything on wheels, because the school bus pretty much requires everything. Even hazardous material training. Just in case the government needs to use a school bus to offload nuclear waste or something. I just like to think the kids are toxic. 🤷🏻♂️
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I wonder if the FSD disengaged mere seconds before impact so Tesla can blame anything but their shitty software.
These accidents could be the dell knell for Tesla with the lawsuits that will follow
Hooray for the free market!
I'm sure all the dead children would have been proud to be collateral damage for such an important event!
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