Ramos is facing about a dozen different charges including

How are you gonna burn AND drown at the same time? =)

IIRC burning lithium ion batteries provide their own oxygen which is why foam is ineffective on battery fires and they use massive amounts of water to cool the fire to the point where it goes out

Whether that decision is in fact the best is completely and utterly immaterial to the comment you replied to.

You completely missed the obvious in your attempt to prove that the poor folks at Cruise really do have a road worthy vehicle: the car did not know where the victim was, the car did not try to “drive off of her”, the car tried to drive away because it undoubtedly had no way of knowing there was a human underneath it.

for an AV, it’s relatively trivial given there are logs that can be examined

because the car didn’t drive forward to get off the pedestrian

NASA engineer, actually. Our spacecraft do tend to be pretty autonomous and are technically vehicles. So in a way, yes, I am

Doesn’t matter. Like I said to panthercougar, laypeople are incredibly bad at knowing what to do in unfamiliar circumstances like this. The fact is, it was a freak event, deciding the best course of action was a cointoss, and a human driver likely wouldn’t have done any better.

A human (theoretically) has the capacity to try and make the best decision based on the circumstances

Obviously(!) it shouldn’t have started driving away with her pinned under it

When did Jalop get such a weird, albeit slight, anti EV stance?

• https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-uses-its-profits-weapon-an-ev-price-war-2023-01-19/

In the Berenstein Bears universe, blowing on the cartridge worked

No, you’re looking at the household income. For individual income, the link specifically says:

80% of car sales have always been used cars.

It’s called “having a 30% profit margin, allowing them to undercut the market in times of lower demand.”

A portion of that stock valuation has to do with competitors adopting TESLA charging standards

Interesting, but how are you getting close enough to a raging battery fire in a pretzelled crashed car to do that? Even MORE very expensive equipment?

Yeah, I witnessed a New Year’s celebration gone wrong. One consumer-grade firework (the kind you buy from stalls in the countryside) launched in the wrong direction led to three cars and a carport burning down in a few minutes.