There’s a lot of paid shills for the Big 3 and their fans who hate electric cars.

On many trucks and some cars, what you call the “handbrake” is still operated by foot. Parking brake is probably a more generic name for it.

It’s not an either-or. Everyone thinks of themselves as alert and attentive drivers, but everyone still fastens their seatbelts when they sit in a car unless they’re a total idiot. Think of autopilot as a preemptive seatbelt.

Note that this is in The Netherlands. That is to say, passing on the right is a €230 fine. Only agitated idiots do it.

My oldest kid is 8 right now. I know how I drove when I got my license at 16. I hope this technology is standard on pretty much all cars by the time he’s behind the wheel. The tech is amazing. Whatever car he gets to drive will have this. Knowing it’s available, I can’t in good conscience set a new driver loose…

Sadly the red car’s driver will not learn from this and will continue to drive like an idiot.

Geezus, it recognized a potentially dangerous situation and reacted accordingly. If you think people are too stupid to recognize that nuance then you’re hanging with some really dumb people and you have a bad sample size. Lighten up.

Probably antilock brakes if it’s ice. Antilock brakes are very effective on ice, so it would still brake like normal.

1. The red car is following much closer to the car in front of it then the other visible drivers on the road.

They famously don’t advertise at all, and why spend the money when this kind of stuff goes viral online for free? Tesla is (rightly in my opinion) one of the most talked about companies in both the automotive and tech spaces and is genuinely pushing the envelope in both performance EVs and self-driving capabilities.…

Watch it with volume.

Accidents happen for a variety of reasons but generally accidents like this happen because people aren’t paying attention. In the event the driver in the Tesla were not paying attention this would have alerted them and eventually hit the brakes for them. A direct parallel can be drawn to the car in front of the Tesla…

To be fair, the car in the right side could clearly see the car in front of the red car (or at least should have been able to see, because they have a clear line of sight). The driver in the Tesla car did not have the same angle and so was unable to see the second and third car past the red car.

Incorrect. The right hand lane car stopped after the auto-brake chime ended. milliseconds at 55+mph = dozens of feet.