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Good grief. Can't it just be whimsy? Must everything be a conspiracy these days? They have a tunable threshold for when the car will attempt a lane change.

by ajross 1y ago

Good grief. Can't it just be whimsy? Must everything be a conspiracy these days? They have a tunable threshold for when the car will attempt a lane change. Set it too high and it makes too many and annoys the occupants. Set it too low and it fails to choose the right lane and spends more time in traffic. That's all it is. They just named the low threshold case after a fun driving movie because joke. Is that really so hard to believe?

Centigonal 1y ago
"Frunk" and the Telo's "monster tunnel" are whimsy. Playing DOOM on a parked Tesla is whimsy. Shipping a feature that implies the car will drive unsafely or illegally in an automated fashion -- from an automaker that has a history (see below) of shipping similar driver assist features with unsafe behavior and misleading or overly bombastic marketing -- that is irresponsibility, not whimsy. If it weren't directly governing driving behavior or if it didn't come from a company that keeps doing this, then maybe I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-cars-traffic-laws-drive-human-rcna20028 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-cars-traffic-la... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-traffic-violations/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-t... https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-risky-deaths-crashes-nhtsa-investigation/ https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-risky-deaths-cra... https://futurism.com/tesla-change-name-full-self-driving-china https://futurism.com/tesla-change-name-full-self-driving-chi... https://www.jalopnik.com/1878905/ncap-downgrades-tesla-safety-score-misleading-autopilot/ https://www.jalopnik.com/1878905/ncap-downgrades-tesla-safet... https://www.theverge.com/news/692639/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-wrong-lane-phantom-braking https://www.theverge.com/news/692639/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-...
- ajross 1y ago
  Please don't Gish-Gallop on HN. None of those links are about AP tuning or "Mad Max" mode.
  - Centigonal 1y ago
    > from an automaker that has a history (see below) of shipping similar driver assist features Must Tesla's actions be judged in a vacuum devoid of past context?

by ajross 1y ago

Centigonal 1y ago

"Frunk" and the Telo's "monster tunnel" are whimsy. Playing DOOM on a parked Tesla is whimsy. Shipping a feature that implies the car will drive unsafely or illegally in an automated fashion -- from an automaker that has a history (see below) of shipping similar driver assist features with unsafe behavior and misleading or overly bombastic marketing -- that is irresponsibility, not whimsy. If it weren't directly governing driving behavior or if it didn't come from a company that keeps doing this, then maybe I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-cars-traffic-laws-drive-human-rcna20028 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-cars-traffic-la... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-traffic-violations/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-t... https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-risky-deaths-crashes-nhtsa-investigation/ https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-risky-deaths-cra... https://futurism.com/tesla-change-name-full-self-driving-china https://futurism.com/tesla-change-name-full-self-driving-chi... https://www.jalopnik.com/1878905/ncap-downgrades-tesla-safety-score-misleading-autopilot/ https://www.jalopnik.com/1878905/ncap-downgrades-tesla-safet... https://www.theverge.com/news/692639/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-wrong-lane-phantom-braking https://www.theverge.com/news/692639/tesla-robotaxi-mistake-...

ajross 1y ago
Please don't Gish-Gallop on HN. None of those links are about AP tuning or "Mad Max" mode.
- Centigonal 1y ago
  > from an automaker that has a history (see below) of shipping similar driver assist features Must Tesla's actions be judged in a vacuum devoid of past context?