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Vehicles are expected to last on the road for more than 9 years. Today, the average age of a vehicle on the road is a little over 12 years[1] - average. It's a
by Alupis 4y ago
Vehicles are expected to last on the road for more than 9 years. Today, the average age of a vehicle on the road is a little over 12 years[1] - average.
It's a significant problem if vehicle's critical safety software/parts fail yet are still on the road. The future utopia of self driving vehicles can never become a reality if slightly older models kill people because they are no longer supported or updated.
[1] https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2022/02/how-old-are-cars/#:~:text=The%20average%20age%20of%20a%20car%20compared%20to%20the%20average,be%20an%20all%2Dtime%20high.&text=Americans%20hold%20on%20to%20their,average%20age%20was%2011.4%20years https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2022/02/how-old-are-cars/#:~:....
- imgabe 4y agoUsing an unapproved third-party part that fails and causes a crash is not an example of the vehicle not lasting.
- Alupis 4y agoThe article says the vehicle was likely using Autopilot, which is a Tesla installed feature - not an unapproved 3rd party component. What led you to say that?
- WheatMillington 4y agoIt's not an unapproved third party part. I can understand why you would think that given GP's misleading characterisation of a vendor-supplied OEM part as third party, but Teslas of this era came equipped with MobileEye technology as selected, specified and installed by Tesla.
- imgabe 4y agoIt’s still a nonstandard modification to the original vehicle. It’s not that the car wore out or didn’t last. It was never designed to have FSD in the first place. The categorization of this as a reliability problem is not accurate.
- obblekk 4y agoYes completely agree. But, this car never even pretended to advertise driving itself. Most likely, it advertised plain, vanilla "cruise control." At best, it also advertised lane keeping and radar cruise control.
- Alupis 4y agoOk, and that lane assist radar cruise control thingy drove straight into a parked, stationary emergency vehicle and killed it's own occupants. Where is the disconnect happening here? Not driving full-speed into stationary objects strikes me as "Driver Assist 101" stuff...
- imgabe 4y agoIt doesn’t matter what gadgets or gizmos are advertised on the car. You’re still responsible for driving the car. Sitting there waiting for the car to do something while it drives full speed into a stationary object is not the car’s fault. As long as the car still had functioning brakes and steering, this is on the driver.
- 7e 4y agoA driver mislead by, well, lies.
- imgabe 4y agoYour eyes don’t lie. If you’re paying attention like you’re supposed to, you have plenty of time to see any obstacles and take manual control if the car doesn’t slow down like it’s supposed to. People are so desperate to blame literally anything except the person directly responsible.