25 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords”

    1. A Russian-speaking friend tells me that one adult and two children were sent to hospital. It didn’t just explode, though: the autopilot failed to recognised a stopped car in front of it. As one does.

      1. The driver failed to recognize a stopped car in front of him. I have driven well over 6 million miles and have never driven into a vehicle stopped in front of me.

  1. Driving a Tesla electric car is the new variant of Russian Roulette. Branding is marketing.

  2. Self-driving. Self-immolating

    But, but, but … there are MANY more ICE fires than Tesla fires. Funny thing though … I’ve NEVER experienced a fire in any one of the many ICE autos I’ve driven in my lifetime. And I have NO FEAR of fire in my current ICE autos. Not even if I crash my car, because ICE cars do NOT explode (as depicted in the movies). However! Those battery explosions filmed in real time by the passing motorist are truly shocking (pun intended). I would honestly be scared to death to drive a Tesla. Other EV’s? Not so much. Musk is a charlatan … and it is evident his unique proprietary battery system was poorly designed. And now he has invested $100B in this defective proprietary battery undercarriage to his auto … so there’s no turning back … until Ralph Nader awakes again.

    1. But, but, but … there are MANY more ICE fires than Tesla fires.

      There are more ICE cars than Teslas.

      The real metric you should be worried about is the number of fires per cars on the road, or possibly per miles driven. This article goes into some superficial detail, but the takeaway is that Teslas appear to have significantly more fire deaths than ICE vehicles, relatively, but electric vehicles generally have less fires.

      1. “…Teslas appear to have significantly more fire deaths than ICE vehicles, relatively, but electric vehicles generally have less fires.”

        A statistical comparison of Teslas vs. other battery powered cars, e.g. Prius, Leaf would be interesting. Anecdotal comparison: I haven’t heard of any other battery powered cars doing this. Either there is a media bias against Tesla causing suppression of news of the other manufacturers’ problems, or Teslas have a defect.

          1. The numbers are still so low that you should be buying lottery tickets.

            Teslas are essentially experimental technology, but they’re not less safe than large quantities of cars already on the road, like older vehicles grandfathered in as exemptions from current safety regulations. They’re expensive luxury supercars, like McLarens and Lamborghinis and should be viewed as such.

    2. Over the 60 years my uncle was in the garage business towing and fixing vehicles he had 1 fire. It was so unusual he was telling everyone about it. The car was a fuel injected model and for some reason when he tipped the wrecked car back into the upright position on its wheels the electric fuel pump started up and sprayed fuel on the hot engine starting a fire. He would laugh at the way cars were always exploding into flames on the teevee.

    1. No surprise there…half were still students in University….most likely in EcoFascism, Womens, Gender,Trans, “Grinder” Studies or some other form of Social Justice BS.

      Leftists/Socialists/Communists ALWAYS Freak out…over everything.

      We are purging when exactly…??
      Couldn’t come a moment sooner…
      Cry Havoc..!!! let fly the dogs of said PURGING

    2. att’n lefties: YOU invented purges. feel free to do a lookup ‘stalinist purges’.
      and the catastrophic consequences of putting a paranoid petty criminal in charge of an entire nation.

  3. I honestly do not get it….people that buy them know they are self igniting….they would have to
    …the cars are way to expensive to leave parked outside

    …and I’ll be damned if I would park one in my garage…in my house…and sleep at night

    1. Am concerned as my neighbour has one of these new “Pintos”…parked right beside my wifes new ‘Rolla in our Condo Garage….
      100 grand of flammable crap.

  4. The only reason these are still on the road is the fact they are electric and electric cars are going to save the world from climate change.

  5. I read somewhere that somehow either the engine or the battery are firing out a fine alcohol mist into the passenger section. Is this a nutbar theory? (I have no technical expertise on this one.)

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