kkillebrew
Banned
Anyone who does not understand that Big Oil is behind this jerk is missing the point. No need to argue about anything here.
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Edit add: I only see Cadillac on the list of hands free and here is a list of features.
I have just 2 questions for the Senator, first How is it thousands die from guns in America and safeguards are not even looked at. The second is that the 727 killed over 200+folk while Boeing govern it's self ,now the plane is back in the air. I'm ALL for safety but Teslas have less accidents than ICE relatively speaking. I think he's in the pocket of ICE makers just coming on the EV line, giving them opportunity to catch up otherwise it doesnt make sense to restrict autopilot users who are not abusive and put us all in the same bucket when all other safety measures on things that kill more Americans on average go willy-nilly, it makes No sense!
Oh come on.
1. Guns don't indiscriminately go out and kill people, and a lot of deaths are due to suicides.
2. Firearms are used multiples more to save lives than used to take lives.
3. There are no safeguards that can be used to prevent a nut job who wants to kill themselves, or others.
4. Then you have that pesky 2A which guarantees the right to firearms ownership.
The Senator is more concerned about the safety of other people on the road who might be endangered by reckless Tesla drivers using these tricks.
I bet Tesla could easily detect these constant weight defeat devices. I doubt a human arm gives constant force on the wheel over the course of minutes.
Unless the human is intentionally moving the wheel, yeah, it does. It exerts the arm's weight in a downward direction from a single point where the arm is gripping.
Maybe but I suspect an arm isn’t really dead weight in the same way an orange would be. It probably responds differently to bumps and turning of the wheel.Unless the human is intentionally moving the wheel, yeah, it does. It exerts the arm's weight in a downward direction from a single point where the arm is gripping.
Maybe but I suspect an arm isn’t really dead weight in the same way an orange would be. It probably responds differently to bumps and turning of the wheel.
...Firearms are used multiples more to save lives than used to take lives....
Sen. Markey sent a letter to Tesla asking them to disable AP until they fix the anti nag tricks. You can watch it here:
Tesla is under pressure by Senator over Autopilot claims and nag defeat tricks - Electrek
I definitely think he has a point about the anti-nag tricks being bad and dangerous. I believe the autopilot buddy device is already illegal.
Ideally, Tesla should use a camera based driver monitoring system but unfortunately, that is not going to happen any time soon plus it could not be retrofitted into existing cars.
So what can Tesla do to solve this problem? Is there a software fix? Could Tesla modulate the torque requirement slightly so that a constant torque would not work anymore?