This article seems pointless. Only purpose to this article is to promote an idiot making baseless claims. Hope the money he made from all the extra views this article generated is shared with you.

Only way to accelerate that hard is to physically press down the gas pedal.

Answer is no.

It will not.  It’s almost infuriatingly slow in acceleration.

I do not disagree that Musk’s comments are to be taken with a salt shaker, but let’s not kid ourselves. None of these people are being fooled, certainly not at this point. They’re just idiots. Like the rest of the idiots I see on the road everyday (texting, doing hair, doing makeup, reading the newspaper - yes... I…

I just remembered the old riding mower from when I was a kid, we had a bungie cord to hold the seat down because a bump might make you bounce up and the engine would cut off, also we could then jump off to move something in our way. All of us kids had to mow the lawn as one of our chores, and none of us died because…

The last paragraph is completely stupid and based on the fallacy that the Tesla is the only risk on the road. You are at risk from a million other things - many of which are FAR more likely. Texting alone causes 1.6M accidents a year but Jalopnik isn’t telling anyone to stay from someone who appears to be looking at…

My point is they did not test a car with Supercruise or any other car in their article. Simply stating that you can’t do it is asinine at best, they should prove it. I know they wanted to refute what Musk was saying,  it damn it if you’re a journalist, go the extra mile and prove to me that other systems can’t be…

Unfortunately, there are idiots all around you right now texting, talking, drinking, eating, putting on makeup, leaving cars & coffee, and more. It’s not like you were perfectly safe until Tesla sold a car with AP and now your life is at risk. I don’t think your risk of an accident is any higher - just the number of…

WTF?!

Exactly, just put a heavy bag on the seat. Hang a laptop from the ceiling with an animated face. There are numerous things you can do. And as you said, the point is that if they chose to do those things, they knew their possible fate.

Not a Tesla owner either, but I agree with you too.

We all know things as important as this is, has to be made idiotic proof.

Its been reported the car in the accident didn’t have a FSD equipped car.

No, using ludicrous speed or max acceleration to get to the AP or FSD speed is crazy on its face and anyone who makes that assertion would be obtuse. If it happened that way it would be a defect (not impossible because things can go wrong but that’s not how it works).

Speeding is involved in like 1/3 of traffic fatalities. Yet not a single manufacturer has implemented, nor been called out for failing to implement, rudimentary controls that would prevent it. That one simple fix would do more than anything that Tesla could do to reduce road fatalities.*

They’ve already bothered to add weights to the steering wheel, keep the belt buckled, and not open any doors in order to pull off this stunt. Adding a bag to the driver’s seat to trick the seat sensor is not going to stop anyone who has already done those other things.

To be fair, Consumer did not state if other systems can be defeated with similar measures. Could you initiate self driving using your face simply by leaning over from the passenger seat?or put a picture of your face on the headrest? Maybe all this had been tested in the last, but the article is piss poor in that…

I’m going to preface this with: I’m not a Tesla owner or a fanboy.

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