It simply saw a superior technology and decided to attack.
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That … tracks
Full stream ahead with the train puns
Whoa, that typo nearly knocked this discussion off the rails…
Ah crap. I guess my fingers need more train ing, and I will have to leave it there now.
How the fuck do you let any level 2 system go 40 to 50 fucking feet down the railroad tracks.
We’re they asleep?
I’m not sure I’d be able to sleep through driving on the railroad tracks. I’m going to guess this person was simply incredibly fucking stupid, and thought the car would figure it out, instead of doing the bare fucking minimum of driving their goddamn 2 ton heavy death machine themself.
LOL right? Like deciding to see what the car will do ON RAILWAY TRACKS is absolutely fucking bonkers.
I’m going to guess this person was simply incredibly fucking stupid
Well, the guy owned a Tesla, it was pretty obvious.
I was gonna say it’s not so much the fact that the car was hit by a train, but that it turned on to the tracks …but 40 or 50 feet?
Cop: WTF happened here?
Driver: It drove itself onto the tracks
Cop: Okay, but what about the other 49 feet of the 50 feet it’s on the tracks?
Driver: …
LOL wasn’t expecting that.
Teslas do still have steering wheels, after all
You don’t say!
Also, the robotaxi has been live for all of a day and there’s already footage of it driving on the wrong side of the road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s-h0YXtF0c&t=420s
The thing that strikes me about both this story and the thing you posted is that the people in the Tesla seem to be like “this is fine” as the car does some pretty terrible stuff.
In that one, Tesla failing to honor a forced left turn instead opting to go straight into oncoming lanes and waggle about causing things to honk at them, the human just sits there without trying to intervene. Meanwhile they describe it as “navigation issue/hesitation” which really understates what happened there.
The train one didn’t come with video, but I can’t imagine just letting my car turn itself onto tracks and going 40 feet without thinking.
My Ford even thinks about going too close to another lane and I’m intervening even if it was really going to be no big deal. I can’t imagine this level of “oh well”.
Tesla drivers/riders are really nuts…
If only there was a way to avoid the place where trains drive.
I checked first. They didn’t make a turn into a crossing. It turned onto the tracks. Jalopnik says there’s no official statement that it was actually driving under FSD(elusion) but if it was strictly under human driving (or FSD turned itself off after driving off) I guarantee Tesla will invade privacy and slander the driver by next day for the sake of court of public opinion
They didn’t make a turn into a crossing. It turned onto the tracks.
Just to be clear for others, it did so at a crossing. That’s still obviously not what it should have done and it’s no defence of the self-driving feature, but I read your comment as suggesting it had found its way onto train tracks by some other route.
Thanks. I could have clarified better myself. I meant “didn’t turn from a rail-parallel road onto a crossing to be met by a train it couldn’t reasonably detect due to bad road design”
Damn. I hope the train is ok
Tesla’s self-driving is pretty shite but they seem to have a particular problem with railway crossings, as also pointed out in the article. Of all of the obstacles for the self-driving system to fail to detect, the several thousand tons of moving steel is probably one of the worst outcomes.
Maybe if they use LIDAR like they should have instead of just cameras it wouldn’t be such an issue, but they’re determined to minimize costs and maximize profits at the expense of consumers as are all publicly traded companies
You don’t understand. Musk likes how they look, we can’t disturb that for “safety”!
Or it no longer has anything to do with making a vehicle look cool.
The Lucid Air is equipped with up to 32 on-board sensors, including long range Lidar radar, short-range radar, surround view monitoring cameras.
It’s because musk treats all his businesses like startups, and no matter how successful they get, in the interest of “trimming the fat” he’d like to keep people buying inferior products at a higher profit margin than thinking about better investment and long term growth, just like many companies.
That, and little kids… and motorcycles… and school busses
Don’t forget “styrofoam walls painted to look like tunnels”. Fucking looney tunes.
Working as expected then.
Tesla’s have a problem with the lefts.
Elongated Musketon: UM THAT WAS JUST 1 FAULTY MODEL STOP CHERRY PICKING GUYS JUST BUY IT!!!1
Clearly the train didn’t yield properly, time to ban trains.
I mean, he did specifically come up with his idiotic “Hyperloop” concept to kill California’s high speed rail project
For as much as I’d like to see Tesla stock crash these days, and without judging on the whole autonomous car topic, this IS cherrypicking.
Human drivers aren’t exactly flawless either, but we won’t ban human driven cars because some acts recklessly or other had a seizure while driving.
If statistically self driving cars are safer, I’d rather have them and reduce the risk of coming across another reckless driver.
yes we should be doing more to reduce driving, it’s relatively unsafe and I’m sick of our lived environments being designed for cars and not people.
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I think that’s called “murder”
Full Self Destruction
Deregulation, ain’t it great.
I’ll just fork it; we can do better than this.
Car drove itself on to the tracks, gets hit by a train. This is some Maximum Overdrive shit.
What a cool and futuristic car. It’s all computer!
I’m still waiting for Elon’s car to drive onto train tracks.
