But the system has a habit of ignoring stopped vehicles, and sooner or later one will plow into a minivan full of kids pulled over on the side of the road.

This statement admits the system is faulty, and yet still blames the driver. Tesla’s continued assertion that their system is safe is stretching plausibility at this point, and I think it’s going to hurt them significantly. This is a witching time for Tesla.

The funniest part of Overhaulin’ is when the production company is clearly trying to inject some drama by making it look like they’re really down to the wire, and if everything isn’t done right this minute they’ll fail - but then everyone in the show is just working along at a perfectly normal pace, and everything…

The drama on that show was the one thing that wasn’t really manufactured - The Tutle family are still mostly estranged to this day, AFAIK.

Please do! Good jokes are like garden manure, they work best when you spread them around.

Also, let’s not forget that if it wasn’t steering into the barrier at highway speeds, he wouldn’t need to intervene in the first place.

But this is really pretty standard spin for a Tesla incident. If the driver intervenes when it’s doing something absurdly wrong, and doesn’t recover, it’s the Driver’s fault, because…

No, Tesla isn’t at fault for the crashes— they do warn people to keep eyes on the road and hands on the wheel, but with their left hand, they repeat the use of a misleading phrase.

What can I say? We’re famous for our pioneering work in discovering new ways to take the piss.

Yeah, same here. I went through the game without ever really switching weapons.

Yes, that’s true. But there’s one other issue at play, there - even putting aside that Pilots have hundreds of hours of training before they ever take control of a commercial Jetliner, those Warnings and disengagement tones are so loud and insistent that they basically cannot be ignored.

The Tesla, on the other hand,…

Fair enough, I did have you wrong. A lot of folk have been using that sort of thing to shuffle blame off of Tesla, and with that in my head, I absolutely mistook what you were getting at.

As for tesla fighting it as long as they can - They’ve already tried to spin this incident by outright manipulating statistics to…

And you wouldn’t need to correct the car at all, if your flawed, technologically insufficient, barely-tested Autodrive system wasn’t trying to Autodrive you into a concrete barrier at 100mph.

You need a more convincing argument than “Oh come on, it’s totally his fault, he had PLENTY of time to stop the system from…

Oh, horseshit. Play NTSB all you like, “Contributory factors” still don’t overrule the primary cause of a crash. And no matter what Tesla-excusing hypothetical you invent, you know as well as I do - at least, since I remember you either working in aviation, or being somewhat of a planespotter - that in such a crash,…

That said, there is at least a little bit of driver error as a factor.

And Tesla can’t wait years for the NTSB to issue a formal finding, while Tesla’s image gets trashed in the process.

Well, I think we’ve found the designer of Tesla’s Self-driving software.

So unique and revolutionary that it was cribbed directly from drawings and theories of Lawrence Hargreaves, who was also an enormous influence on both their pre-powered flight gliders and on the design of the Kitty Hawk, thanks to his work with curved airfoils, Aircraft control, and inventing the Box Kite.

Imagine if the Wright brother’s never strayed from bicycles...

Two things that are not entirely related that I find hilarious about this:

I wouldn’t be so sure - after all, they do say that God is inside all of us.