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Yeah, we live in a web and app world where most software guys are used to having a great deal of latitude in these types of things. It's much different when you

Yeah, we live in a web and app world where most software guys are used to having a great deal of latitude in these types of things. It's much different when you're dealing with multi-ton death machines like cars and planes. I understand Tesla is clarifying that the driver misused the feature and that this is not normal operation, which is fine as far as it goes, but they simply shouldn't allow this to happen. If your product is not resilient against human error (or even a reasonable degree of human malice), it's not production-ready. Tesla actually takes a great attitude on this with regard to vehicle crash safety. They take minimizing fatalities super seriously. The kinds of collisions that all other automakers would've written off as "Well man, we can't stop people from driving into poles at 80 mph", Tesla notes and does everything they can to make sure the occupants can walk away. That's the kind of attitude we need here -- if your machine allows something bad to happen, you should not blame the user, but take every reasonable measure to correct the problem. This is the attitude that allowed the Model S to break the crash safety scale. You can't be perfect, but you can be pretty good. Saying "Well, don't press that button if there's a trailer in front of your car" isn't good enough.

FireBeyond 11y ago
"Tesla actually takes a great attitude on this with regard to vehicle crash safety. They take minimizing fatalities super seriously. The kinds of collisions that all other automakers would've written off as "Well man, we can't stop people from driving into poles at 80 mph", Tesla notes and does everything they can to make sure the occupants can walk away." Eh. This is a bit too brown nose for me. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List Current IIHS "Top Safety Picks". There's some discussion about why Tesla isn't on the list, including that they've not submitted it - http://www.torquenews.com/1083/why-tesla-s-2014-model-s-cannot-earn-us-top-safety-rating http://www.torquenews.com/1083/why-tesla-s-2014-model-s-cann... but there are valid comments in there that even if submitted, while it would do very well, might struggle in some areas. To go from that to your "all other automakers would write off" is a generalization that frankly doesn't fit reality.
- kalleboo 11y ago
  There's also Euro NCAP where Tesla does well but not #1 http://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ratings http://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-rat...

FireBeyond 11y ago

"Tesla actually takes a great attitude on this with regard to vehicle crash safety. They take minimizing fatalities super seriously. The kinds of collisions that all other automakers would've written off as "Well man, we can't stop people from driving into poles at 80 mph", Tesla notes and does everything they can to make sure the occupants can walk away." Eh. This is a bit too brown nose for me. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List Current IIHS "Top Safety Picks". There's some discussion about why Tesla isn't on the list, including that they've not submitted it - http://www.torquenews.com/1083/why-tesla-s-2014-model-s-cannot-earn-us-top-safety-rating http://www.torquenews.com/1083/why-tesla-s-2014-model-s-cann... but there are valid comments in there that even if submitted, while it would do very well, might struggle in some areas. To go from that to your "all other automakers would write off" is a generalization that frankly doesn't fit reality.

kalleboo 11y ago
There's also Euro NCAP where Tesla does well but not #1 http://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ratings http://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-rat...