Why is this on my car blog?!?!?

Simply driving yourself takes less attention than monitoring a computer and trying to jump in the exact moment it fails. And the whole point of autonomous systems is to free drivers from paying attention to driving. Whether it’s “deflecting responsibility” or whatever is immaterial. Don’t set people up for failure.…

I’m not sure how it can be looked at any different. There’s no “confidence level” indicator in a Tesla equipped with Autopilot. As the driver, everything appears fine. Until it isn’t.

Still Tesla’s fault. If the system can’t find enough information because the roads are poorly marked, it should turn itself off. If your shit isn’t reliable enough for people who don’t read the manuals, then it’s just not reliable enough. It has to be fool-proof because people are fools.

Yes at least for the first dozen. This is a brand new technology with world-changing implications.

Right, but what a group of random people say about the incident, or any incident for that matter, on a forum doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. What matters are the company’s claims, the driver’s claims, any eyewitness claims, and the findings of the actual insurance and law enforcement investigators.

To be fair, Tesla’s excuse for EVERYTHING, though, is to blame someone else, whether it’s a car critic doing a review, a model X owner complaining about faulty doors, or a driver complaining about Autopilot. Tesla always blames someone else, so it’s hard to figure out what the truth is a lot of the time.

YES! TESLOPNIK!

Even Mrs. Musk doesn’t pay attention when it’s on. Elon really should’ve seen this coming.

It’s cruise control that takes the twists and turns, accelerates and decelerates according to road conditions and road hazards - in other words, it’s an autonomous system under limited conditions, but it’s not 100% reliable.

This is exactly what happened with all the “unintended acceleration” cases - people hopping onto a headline in order to avoid responsibility / make money.

I don't know why I get so much pleasure from hearing about these autopilot crashes...but I do know it's Halarious just imagining some sleeping dude going off a cliff or into the back of a manure truck at 70mph.

More empty words.

To be honest that looks like a complete wiring diagram of any modern vehicle. Even a basic car with power locks and windows has at least 3 connections in the door.

While I am sure the Bentley is a heck of a car, I just want to point out that pretty much every car’s electrical wiring looks just like this. There’s a lot of wires.

you don’t need a minor collision to total this baby, just a few ants or rabbits chewing some wires off.

If you really think about it, as bad as this looks, it’s not that atypical. Spend anytime disassembling mass parts in your engine bay, and you’ll realize just how much wiring is in the vehicle. Add on a few more wires here and there for the opulent things mentioned (speakers, HUD, radar), and this is probably not…

Honestly, they’re not that hard to trace. Tedious would be a better way to describe it. You simply take what’s called a “tree-branch” approach. You start at your biggest branches of electrical wiring first, and find where the problem lies. Now, it truly doesn’t lie there, but it helps you narrow down. Then you go down…

If Musk just got off of social media and focused on making cars (and playing with rockets, I suppose), this wouldn’t even be a thing.

How long until Elon is jarring his urine, and wearing tissue boxes on his feet?