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KingPorkChop to CyberstuckEnglish · 2 months ago

'Out of control' Tesla ploughs into pedestrians on busy London street injuring seven

www.lbc.co.uk

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'Out of control' Tesla ploughs into pedestrians on busy London street injuring seven

www.lbc.co.uk

KingPorkChop to CyberstuckEnglish · 2 months ago
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Seven people have been injured and later taken to hospital after a Tesla ploughed into the pavement of a busy London street before hitting a lamppost.
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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    Ban them, recall them, force the “auto” pilot features to be disabled

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      there was/is a huge scandal of tesla employees spying on customers through their cars. No reason why they wouldn’t be able to be weaponized by muskrat at any point in time.

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        I wonder if there’s a way to make it constantly upload a goatse. (aside from taping a picture to the cameras)

        • Kairos@lemmy.today
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          probably

      • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Do you have any sources? I would like to send them to some Tesla owners I know.

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          Not specifically but these are it https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tesla+worker+spying&t=fpas&ia=web

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      Id just like to point out that while I think Tesla is a shit car company partly owned by a complete asshole that theres no evidence at this point that there was any fault with the car. Could have been a medical episode, drunk driver or shit driver. They deserve a lot of hate for shit thats definitely wrong with them. This might not be one of those cases.

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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        My prius brakes if it detects a pedestrian in front of you even when your foot is on the gas. Unsurprising that tesla can’t figure that out

        • cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world
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          genuine question, what does it do if it detects a car following you at the same speed?

          • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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            Probably not care since what danger is there from a car following you?

            • CoolMatt
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              Probably rear ending, whoch could potentially push the front car into the pedestrian anyway

              • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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                GOOD point. Best bet is to just keep going then.

                • CoolMatt
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                  Ahhaha, well I mean I get the commenter’s curiosity as to what would happen in that situation

            • cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world
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              I meant at the same time

        • Jerkface (any/all)
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          Nice. I’m vegan BTW.

          • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            What a great and insightful comment making fun of people discussing standard safety features to avoid driving over pedestrians

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              It’s a self-deprecating in joke. Don’t worry about it. If I had realized it would make you lose your shit because you saw the word “vegan”, I would have explained it. Don’t hurt any individuals, okay?

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    Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

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      It does look like the front might have actually fallen off.

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        Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM for the dummy downvoters not getting the reference or just don’t have a sense of humor.

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        I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.

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      I saw the username and thought this is exactly her kind of reasoning, but apparently perhaps Australia has a senator with that name too

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        Well there are a lot of these pedestrians going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that pedestrians aren’t safe.

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    Yeah i never opted into the tesla self driving beta program. Ban this shit.

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      It’s already banned in the UK.

      https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64125012/british-government-blocks-tesla-from-launching-full-self-driving-in-the-uk/

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      The FSD beta has been merged to mainline for a while now. If you have FSD, you have what used to be the beta.

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    The car wrapped around the lamppost with a “Welcome to campus life” banner got a chuckle out of me.

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      It’s the student life m8

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    It must have registered a pedestrian with semitic facial features.

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    Maybe, the Tesla wanted to drive to the location shown on one of the pedestrian’s T-Shirt… 😏

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      T-shirt:

      “New York”

      Tesla:

      “Sweet, found a shortcut!”

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    Jesus Christ footage looks like it was doing a few miles an hour there

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    Any information yet if the software went crazy or the driver went crazy?

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.world
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    This is how the Skynet takeover plays out in the boring dystopia. Tesla autopilot taking revenge for all the vandalism. SMH

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      >accuses media of exonerating driver without research

      >provides no evidence or research to support their claim

      Oops, you have become that which you despise.

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          I don’t so happily welcome our dystopian future. I don’t need my car to police me. I can’t where you’re coming from on that, but it’s kind of a horrifying thought imo. You’re absolutely correct about the safety matter, but that’s also a pretty steep cost for safety. I’m very conflicted.

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      depends if the car was in self driving or not. If this is a technological failure, even if it was brakes or other parts, then it could be the car.

      if it was at all intentional, 100% agree.

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      If it was a self driving bat maybe

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