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I think if a Toyota’s ebrake triggered on a Highway and caused a fatality, we’d hear about it in the national news. But it doesn’t happen, so we don’t. I coul
by prepend 5y ago
I think if a Toyota’s ebrake triggered on a Highway and caused a fatality, we’d hear about it in the national news.
But it doesn’t happen, so we don’t.
I could be wrong, but I think the interest of this article is that this type of accident never occurs with other cars, thus the newsworthiness.
- jstream67 5y agoTo my understanding this is an issue with pretty much all auto-braking cars https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/nhtsa-to-investigate-honda-accords-and-cr-vs-over-phantom-braking/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/nhtsa-to-investigate-ho... The Hacker News audience has an extreme hatred of tesla. I think its mostly political personally. Musk disagrees with a couple of the left's untouchable rich elites and all of a sudden you get a million submissions every time a tesla is involved in an accident.
- fivestarman 5y agoElon Musk is a fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.
- prepend 5y agoThanks for the research and posting the article. So it does exist in other cars, but much less frequently. This article has 1.7 million affected cars and “ 278 complaints, the NHTSA says that only six of them alleged collisions with minor injuries, and no severe incidents have been reported.” Compared to Tesla where there’s like half a million cars and at least one fatality. Of course, this could be user error (eg, fall asleep, wake up, slam on brakes) so I don’t think blame can be assigned, but I don’t think Tesla gets an inappropriate amount of news coverage here.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago>But it doesn’t happen, so we don’t. Seriously? https://www.motorbiscuit.com/thousands-honda-cr-v-models-struggle-phantom-braking/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/thousands-honda-cr-v-models-str... It's all about clickbaiting Tesla in headlines for eyeballs. And HN loves it.
- prepend 5y agoNo one died there. And Honda doesn’t advertise their automatic braking as beta of full self driving. I don’t think it’s a close comparison.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoYou're confusing Autopilot with FSD. Also, we don't know yet if the Tesla crash is due to the auto braking, do we?