The tone of this piece is bleak. And accurate. 

Na this is a user problem... dude slammed on the accelerator and the break... doesn’t matter if its DBW truck responded to the inputs it was given. Dude literally told it to put down the 50-foot skid mark, truck did what it was told. As much as I think the tesla truck is stupid, this isn’t a tesla problem this is a…

It didn’t warn the driver before they used it and Tesla knew about the issue.

The problem for me is this line:

EV people doing EV people things...

Until they push out a half-baked update that borks that warning system.

Tesla, according to the user, replied that Dog Mode’s issues were a “known characteristic of current firmware,” that the latest OTA update did spark “a firmware issue with dog mode” and that owners should “please refrain from using dog mode for the time being.”

And people will continue to rush out and buy more of them.

Dog owning Telsa fanboys now face a dilemma over which obsession is more important to them.  

I love seeing Tesla taking L after L lately. 

Elon hates dogs! 

Well, I think I have a new favorite Jalopnik article. ♥ I have no notes, this is perfection. It’s a shame we all live thousands of miles from each other, a Jalopnik/Autopian/Motor1 trans crossover would be EPIC!

25mph = 40km/h. That’s fast enough that when my wife and kids were t-boned by a distracted driver (“just holding onto” their cell phone), the impact crushed the side of her minivan. Our daughter (then 6-years-old) was sitting dead centre in the van. If she had been sitting middle row, passenger side, she would’ve been…

U-Turn Guy: yeah, probably a bit of an overreaction by the officer to issue a ticket

Jaywalking is a thing because the automotive industry poured a lot of money into turning this into a car-dependent nation.

See, he hasn’t learned yet that the job of the cops is to enforce the law for the Rich not against them. He hasn’t learned how to be a happy little stormtrooper yet. He’ll be fired soon enough if he doesn’t though.

Something tells me Spencer has also used the words ‘should have complied with police’ when reacting to yet another unarmed person being shot.

Correct.

what is with the gendarmerie siren? is it to alert people of the near silent truck approaching?

I, for one, take a really positive message away from this heart-warming story. *This* is what happens when you try turning off and on again *before* calling the IT Helpdesk and whining at them that you’ve already tried ‘everything’, knowing that you haven’t done a darn thing.