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"FSD" is a dangerous acronym.
"Full Self Driving" is not accurate - and there is fine print all over the contract that if you get into an accident that "FSD" creates, Tesla is not held liable.
AI is all the jazz right now - but you simply cannot compute the infinite nuance in decision making scenarios that only human beings can be perceptive of. That technology is not available (commercially) and won't be for a very, very long time.
Keep your hands on the fricking wheel - trust no one - especially these billionaire fricks who will continue to profit no matter how many deaths they cause.
Article says nothing about FSD though....?
No one in the comment chain indicated this crash was linked to FSD, but it does not make invalidate the concern people have over calling this feature "Full" Self-Driving, when it clearly is still not a truly fully tested feature. We should not let billionaires falsely market a feature that is responsible for so many lives.
To provide a bit of nuance here, Tesla vehicles are extremely safe vehicles on paper. They are hard to roll, absorb impacts extremely well, and have a whole suite of safety tech. They also rarely catch fire - less than ICE vehicles.
But they're really easy to crash. 0-60 in 3 seconds, massive screens that control critical vehicle features, and over-reliance on autopilot/3rd person camera that can quickly lead to driver inattentiveness is why they're high up on the list of dangerous vehicles.
"3 dead teens" is fact, not sensationalism. As is the mountain of osha violations. The suite of safety tech has been proven to be useless once the car is on fire. The only senstionalism going on is claiming that a company failing repeatedly is excusable because "on paper" it shouldn't be happening.
People die in car crashes EVERY DAY. This news is being looked at more because a tesla was involved and a lot of people love to hate on the car. The driver was speeding and likely drunk . First responders on site described as a typical car crash.
Seriously when are people going to realize that 4000+ pound vehicles aren't healthy for anyone on the road.
The vast majority of cars on the road are over 4k lbs. Average weight of a vehicle sold in 2024 is 4,600lbs.
Heck even new sports cars are in the high 3k range. Cars got fat
Doesn't change the fact that it isn't healthy
I want to call this chain out specifically because cars are so fat these days because of Obama era regulation obsession and its continuation by literally a handful of male feminists in California. Redditors cheered for this.
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If the car manufacturers followed the regulations in good faith this wouldn't have happened.
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