Waiting for the forthcoming teardown of the Mission-E, electric VW bus and Audi electric whatever where they discover that housed inside each battery pack is actually...

How was Turo not mentioned in this?

It reads like a PR article release. This idea isn’t “new”, neither is its implementation.

So... like TURO but for people that can’t think ahead? Also, TURO is a much better example of “air bnb for cars”.

Interesting idea. I wonder why nobody thought of it before?

http://www.turo.com

This is terrible for this man and other people like him, but the problem isn’t with Uber, it’s that a medallion is $700k. This artificial economy has always been problematic. There are also issues with ride sharing, but the answer lies somewhere in the middle, not protecting this outdated system.

Sounds good, we should do it here.

I’m not sure why someone (pro or con) doesn’t do a survey of Tesla owners that have autopilot and ask them whether they think autopilot is (a) TACC, a steer assist, and lane changing system, or (b) full-self driving system. All I ever see on this site are people arguing over whether it’s deceptive but isn’t this…

Too many lawyers, picking fights where there is nothing. This is why we can’t have nice things.

All those broke-ass red states that complain about California, I’m looking DIRECTLY AT THE FLYOVER STATES, that get tax dollars from Californis can suck a bag of dicks. They need the West more than the West needs them.

I can’t wait for autonomous trucks to happen. Honestly, that is going utterly destroy a massive amount of sanctimonious red-state rednecks. If you thought the collapse of the coal industry laid waste to entire economies, that is nothing to what happens when trucker jobs start to go. Maybe we’ll finally get some…

It is not normal when:

the Environmental PROTECTION Agency is fighting against a local government institution and their more stringent implementations to save the environment.

That’s kinda like in Orwell’s nightmare. War is peace. Fuck.

“Drivers are taking their eyes off the road without concerns because they bought a system that says it drives for them.”
 

So have any of these Autopilot crashes been the result of the car taking control from the driver? Nearly all of them seem to be chalked up to some sort of inattention on the part of the driver.

The dumbass ADMITTED to using Autopilot and looking at her phone at 60mph?

Exactly. I said it somewhere else, but:

Agreed. Sensationalist nonsense premise to this article. Why don’t we require ALL vehicles to have this? Isn’t it EVEN LESS SAFE if your car DOESN’T have autopilot to take hands/eyes off the wheel? Shouldn’t even automaker be shamed for this oversight? We need the government to step in and save us from ourselves…

I heard there was a fatal crash involving another brand’s vehicle (not tesla related). It has a regular gas engine, but I forget the rest of the details. Can someone point me to the article?

Would there be another reason not to do it? Seems pretty valid. Am I supposed to be outraged that company didn’t add safety features with a high cost and a marginal effectiveness? I realize that last part is open for debate but if we assume that the ratio of false positives was indeed a factor its not really hard to…

Let me make sure I understand this: