Kind of like the free market . . . Until Tesla pisses off the dealer Union and suddenly gov. needs to step in and tell them they can’t sell directly.

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As if most truck owners actually use it as a truck.

Your point is the real one. Misleading headlines and leading statements seemed aimed to make the reader/viewer focus solely on the autonomous text and not the driver or context of the accident.

I for one want to know Jalopnik is going to run an exposé on BMW’s ongoing blinkerfluidgate scadal.

That’s the thing, there’s a different between being good at what you do, and being nigh omnipresent. The machinations in The Dark Knight were basically the logistical equivalent of The Killing Joke x20.

The problem is disproportionate coverage that creates the incorrect impression that semi-autonomous vehicles—and in particular Teslas—are inherently dangerous in and of themselves.

There are way too many stretches in a film obsessed with trying to seem like it could occur in our reality. The sonar technology or the boat bombs for example (along with some of your points).

The biggest problem with the movie is that it isn’t portrayed as a comic book movie, it instead has the air of a prestige dramatic crime film, so those very real logistical problems you mentioned become much more pronounced than if the movie were to have a bit more of a “This is kind of silly isn’t it? but we’re going…

Wholeheartedly agree. I think the reason the character onscreen is so great is because the character on the page was so poorly drawn out, like they just wanted some non-human personification of “chaos,” that Ledger was just able to run with it and flesh it out as he saw fit. I love his performance and the movie in…

Well, nothing personal against him, just not sure this is worth writing an article about.

I feel like Patton Oswalt has compromising pictures of everyone at the AVClub. If he takes a shit, you guys talk about how brilliant it is.

As good as Heath Ledger was, I’m pretty sure this is way more depth/credit given to Goyer’s script than it deserves.

How about a message every time you turn it on and if it senses you aren’t holding the wheel, it flashes and starts loud beeping until ultimately disabling the feature until you come to a stop and put the car in park?

Headline should be “Idiot staring at their phone wrecks their car like everyone else who had an accident last Friday”

The driver, police said, admitted that she was looking at her phone prior to the collision.

It doesn’t matter what they call it. Say they call it the 100% perfect never crash mode. You buy the car, enable 100%PNCM (not a very catchy name), and drive around with your hands a millimeter from the wheel yelling OMG, it’s driving itself! During that time, while your safely paying hyper attention to it, you…

More impressive is 60mph into a stationary firetruck and all she got was a broken ankle! That’s one safe car!

As for autopilot, it doesn’t recognize stationary objects directly ahead at highway speeds as designed. They tell you this outright.

Driver was a moron. Didn’t pay attention to the road. Didn’t see the giant red truck with flashing lights. Was looking at a phone while driving. I assume NSTB is on the case?

So have any of these Autopilot crashes been the result of the car taking control from the driver? Nearly all of them seem to be chalked up to some sort of inattention on the part of the driver.