It would only be annoying if the system has a lot of false positives. Tesla’s system is pretty bad at this because it’s mainly relying on the steering torque (only recently switching to more camera). Steering torque is very prone to false positives given it requires the user to hold the wheel in a certain way to avoid…

Hate to break it to you, but that’s how all L2 ADAS systems (ACC+lane keeping) work. If it comes to a situation it can’t handle, it can just drop control immediately and you are expected to take over.

On the issue of cross traffic, no general L2 ADAS system is tasked to deal with that. Being an L2 system, by definition there are situations it can’t handle, but that is not a safety concern because it’s not supposed handle everything anyways. The real fix that satisfied NHTSA is increasing attention detection nags…

That requires however the meter maid to reach the car while it is still stationary. Point is once it starts moving, any stupid thing it does gets a free pass currently, as the law does not cover it. All the city can give are parking tickets, which have relatively low penalties.

By the time they come, the cars may have moved already. Although 15-20 minutes is a long time for traffic, SF’s meter maids may not reach the scene that quickly.

Yep, there’s a screen that shows estimated range based on 5/15/30 miles. None of the journalists ever bother to mention that.

“It’s not this specific case, it’s just in general. If it leads to people engaging in poor behavior at the wheel, it’s just as bad. Trust me, I’m in IT where users think turning off the computer means turning off the monitor, there has to be some dumba$$ somewhere that still thinks Autopilot means do whatever you…

Actually it does do that. If you ignore the escalating warnings, the car will eventually come to a stop with hazard lights on and AP is disabled for the rest of the drive.

Yep, it’s opt in and you get a credit. there are also simpler programs where they can shut off your charging (and other connected appliances or your smart thermostat) when demand is high and you get a credit for that.

Yeah, given it all happened in very recent cars, it's probably an assembly error and they would have to trace it back to the time period it was installed and the batch that were installed.

This is very much a L4 vehicle, but it is a L4 vehicle under test. The safety driver has an explicit responsibility to intervene when things go wrong (which is expected, that’s why they are there in the first place).

In context, the system that was disabled was the Volvo’s built in AEB. I think it is standard practice in the industry to disable factory AEB systems for L4 cars and use their own, as the factory one may interfere with operation of the custom system. As such, I’m not sure if necessarily it doesn’t make sense.

I totally believe that ships are not equipped to handle fires that involve EVs (involve meaning it counts even if the fire did not start at the EVs), but that is separate from the whether the fire started from the HV battery (which is the only case the suggestion of disconnecting it might help somewhat). Other than…

Tesla closed their PR department years ago, the media knows this and it’s disingenuous for journalists to suggest it means anything when they don’t reply (given the journalist KNOWS there is no one there to reply).

This seems like a typical kneejerk anti-Tesla reaction, especially given there is zero evidence there are Teslas on board, and a large majority of the EVs have already been identified as Mercedes, with the rest BMW/Mini. Tesla are statistically far less likely to catch a fire than any other EV brand, given they are…

Some shipping companies do disconnect both the 12V and the HV battery. But if the car is undamaged, there isn’t a really need for doing so. Given a similar fire has happened on a ship with no EVs (and that ship burned down completely and sunk), I highly doubt it necessarily has to do with the HV battery.

They can if it’s L2. The person can clearly see it was about to run the red light and could have applied the brakes. The system does say in advance if it is braking for a red light.

Actually FSD is guaranteed to transfer to the next owner, as long as the car never transferred to Tesla ownership. If it ever crosses Tesla’s hands, it may be removed to lower the price of the car to move it more quickly (generally Tesla doesn’t want to keep used car inventory). The reason why Tesla puts low value to…

Yep, I looked at some of the dirt cheap EVs now being offered in Australia and by the time they brought the crash test standards up to Australian standards the price wasn’t any better than the Bolt.

The US have allowed them to do that (remember Faraday Future?). Of course the cars will no longer be competitive if they did that, so few companies bother other than vaporware ones that suck up investor money.