The #Cybertruck, Tesla’s all-new electric pickup truck, is here, and it can take a sledgehammer to the door while nary a dent. The all-electric pickup will offer up to 500 miles of range and start at $39,000. https://t.co/7a8YBicIkC
Originally Posted by BWillie:
So I see no reason to get rid of my old Tesla where autopilot works fine and my face isn't tracked to nag me every time Im not a driving zombie. Im sure Elons persona did him no favors with the NHTSA.
Someone else is paying the NHTSA some side money while they catch up on self driving technology.
This has always been a thing for business for as long as man has been in business. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DrunkBassGuitar:
lol this is why no one builds cars out of stainless steel, it looks like shit almost immediately when exposed to the elements
The stainless would still be the least of my concerns with that thing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Yeah, that ****ing sucks.
I want some sort of autopilot pretty bad. I drive a lot of miles on county roads that it obviously wouldn't work on, but there are a lot of highway miles that I would get a TON of value out of mentally checking out for a few minutes.
I've long said that Automated driving will outperform humans, but the liability will fall on the manufacturers, and that will be a problem.
Obviously I was wrong on it shitcanning the whole thing, but it looks like the lawyers are still fighting.
How long until someone Jailbreaks a Tesla? LOL
My guess is it will take an act of congress to carve out an exception for automated cars.
If China/Japan/Europe have successfully* deployed driverless cars and the USA has not, maybe, and who knows with our politics...
There might be enough public push to have a liability law where driverless car wrecks are treated more like regular car wrecks with insurance as opposed to the type of liability Boeing would face for deploying a dangerous airplane.
*Successfully being defined as say something like 1/10 the accident and death rate of human drivers but not requiring a zero rate. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RedRaider56:
I'm seeing a ton of these in Austin, Tx running around. Has to be one of the ugliest MF'ing things I've seen in my entire life.
I just have to chuckle every time I see a diesel semi, loaded with Teslas, driving through town to deliver them somewhere else. Love the irony
