Cargo pants! Shut up, I’m a 44 year old computer engineer dad. I have a license.

Finally I can leave my kids in the back with the windows rolled up and doors locked without some snarky white knight coming and breaking my window for the fourth time.

Kind of sketch this happened 4 months before the one in the U.S. and Tesla doesn’t bother to mention it. Even when people are calling the one in the U.S. the first fatal autonomous crash.

So what if an area gets “white-listed” but actually has a obstacle in the road? Like a mattress or truck/stopped vehicle, will the car just think, “Oh no, that is a sign, I know that from others cars passing by here.” and the hit the obstacle?

Until Tesla get way more aggressive about forcing a driver to pay attention, this sort of system and any improvements to it will only make things worse as people perceive reduced responsibility. The first fatal accident has already shown that the biggest flaw with the system is that it encourages drivers to watch…

I don’t know how to feel about Autopilot. I don’t think I’d trust my life to it at this point, but it seems like it’d be nice to have. It’s awful that Mr. Brown died. It’s like it’s pushing state of the art as fast as it can, so the Venn diagram of early adopters and risk takers is probably where it’s pointed. That…

Ultimately there is no preventing stupidity. Someone will find a way to wreck (at fault) with this system in use. Its too bad Tesla gets the wrap for that. But their updates shouldn’t be reactive but proactive. Then again, what do I know about electric semi-autonomous vehicles?

The system should also now be able to take highway off ramps, and it should better detect when someone wants to change into your lane thanks to an increased ability to see another car’s directional signal.

“...it should better detect when someone wants to change into your lane thanks to an increased ability to see another car’s directional signal.”

This is probably a liability in Florida, where a turn signal is a guarantee that no lane change is going to occur in the next 50 miles.

The NYP story states the teenager shoved her, not punched, and then states she was removed by emergency services, not arrested. These seem like important distinctions.

I have a similar but distinct argument with my friends all the time. It is not about which is the best pop-tart, but which is the staple pop-tart. It appears strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon and apple currant came out at the same time.

The laziness of human beings will never cease to amaze me. Neither will our capacity for completely wasting money. I say this because I want this feeder.

The laziness of human beings will never cease to amaze me. Neither will our capacity for completely wasting money. I…

People who only buy the badge and are trading in last year’s S-Class because it ran out of gas.

I am so glad that when I was 14 we were still on Internet 1.0

The driver should have been watching the road.

I’m no expert, but shouldn’t an autopilot know the posted speed limit and not be allowed to exceed it?

A car should be as idiot proof as possible. Why? Because there are too many idiots around.

Drivers are inappropriately using the feature, yes. Tesla should understand that it will happen, though, and take one of two approaches:

Totally agree, but Tesla should have been more humble and reasonable with their claims. When the CEO is tweeting videos of random youtubers doing stuff with the autopilot, not paying attention, filming themselves (phone in hands) when the car is “driving itself), it’s just encouraging other to go even further.

The most offensive part of all this is that it's powered by a Proprietary Plug instead of just USB. If it was just USB it'd make sense, but it's not. It's some crap you have to buy from Nintendo for $12-25 depending on where you live and it's a part that costs them probably less than $2 to manufacture. It's not a cost…