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IMO your foot should be on break if you're in FSD mode. That's where my foot is using just cruise control even. The slightest tap on the break turns off cruise
by ModernMech 5y ago
IMO your foot should be on break if you're in FSD mode. That's where my foot is using just cruise control even. The slightest tap on the break turns off cruise control.
Also, if it's so dark that you can't stop before hitting a car in front of you, then you're going too fast. The speed limit is a max, not a min, and it changes depending on prevailing road conditions no matter what the posted signs say. For example, if it's raining and you get into an accident, you can be fined for speeding even if you were going the speed limit. Going 75mph in pea-soup fog is a recipe for disaster. The dead of night has the same calculus. You should only go as fast as you can see. A good rule of thumb is you should always be able to see 12 seconds clearly ahead of you. That's how some professional human drivers manage to drive literal millions of miles over a career without a single accident.
Frankly, all this talk about how Teslas will improve the safety of traffic because they perform at a superhuman level is belied by this video evidence. Apparently these machines only drive as well as the drivers who programmed them. I wonder if there are even any professional drivers on the engineering team consulting on this project.
If the car can't even operate within the envelope of its own sensing and computing limitations, then how can we make any claims about its safety? It's driving at top speed in situations where it's essentially blind. When I'm blinded, I pull over. When the Tesla is blinded, it doesn't even know. See also, the guy who ran full speed into a tractor trailer and lost his head. It's been years since that incident and Teslas are still driving full speed into things they can't see. How is that a basis for platform that will save us all due to how safe it is?