I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords

“My husband believed Tesla could do no wrong.”

I am wondering whether Tesla ever helps pay for damage in faulty vehicle.
 
My husband was driving his Tesla Model 3 yesterday in the rain. He was in navigation mode and it downgraded to lane follow because of the weather. He was in the. HOV lane of the interstate, straight (but wet road) road, going the speed limit, no other cars near his. He went under a bridge, the car suddenly swerved left (no warning/beeping triggered). My husband was alert and had his hands on the wheel and tried to regain control, but it had already gone into a spin, did a 360 and hit a concrete wall. In their system, there was no evidence of collision. We only knew the exact time because the frunk became disengaged when it crumpled. The airbags were not deployed, which is surprising given it was a 65 mph crash.
 
I had previous issues with the navigation mode. The first instance was the car’s desire to move to the leftmost lane even when I was getting off in less than two miles. I could cancel the lane change, but a split second later, it would reinitiate the merge. I could cancel it 10 times in a row, and it did not matter. This was a change from before. I have a video of this. Tesla phone intake person said that was not normal.
 
A week after, the car in navigate mode nearly led me into an accident. I tried to merge me into a car on the interstate that was going ~30 mph slower than me. Luckily I was able to take the wheel and swerve around it and the road was dry so I was ok. I stopped using the self driving after that. My husband, a mechanical engineer, really believes in the Tesla project and kind of dismissed it as unlucky. But then his accident happened yesterday.

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

  1. Hi. I am an engineer, I am here to help you, Did I show you my iron ring?
    Hi. I am an engineer. No I don’t have the striped hat. No I don’t drive a train. I wish I could. Did I tell you how intelligent I am. No not smart, intelligent.

    1. Telsa is American. The Iron Ring is a Canadian tradition. But that’s OK, I’m sure all you Mexicans make that mistake (old joke, let me know if it’s new to you).

      And, folklore be damned, it doesn’t cut off circulation to the brain. It just enables idiots who didn’t know how to listen before they got educated. (from a 15 year P.Eng, helping to educate the juniors in my company.)

      1. Indeed that is a Canadian thing, but Tesla is virtually crawling with Canadian (and other nationalities) Engineers. My daughter in law left because of the immensely bloated bureaucracy that impeded basic common sense. After 100 years of automotive assembly line production Tesla cant even setup robotic welders correctly. How bad can their software actually be on has to ask.

    1. So a few people die in their Teslas … what is that compared to saving the planet by driving $150K electric luxury cars that occasionally blow up. Saving the world, people! Think of the children.

  2. Hi. I am an engineer, I am here to help you, did I show you my slide rule and my HP RPN calculator ?
    I have helped design some really great hardware. Unfortunately all of it is useless without software.
    Programmers are not engineers. I am here to tell you to never trust your life to stuff spewed out by programmers.
    You think that’s harsh ? Perhaps.

    1. I’m a software “engineer”[1] and I don’t think that’s harsh.

      [1] I don’t quite know how the software industry gets away with using that term; I have to assume the PEO is asleep at the switch or something

      1. The Canadian engineering associations surrendered on the term “software engineer” some time ago. I can’t remember why.

  3. Can we start a class action, to sue everyone who has ever accepted an electric car/net metering/green subsidy, at 75 trillion percent secondly interest rate retroactive to the second they accepted the payment? If they can’t pay, we can harvest their organs.

    These people who vote for this, and pay for this, need to get it gooder, and harder than they are getting it.

    And how is it rational to sue the subsidy farmer, if the government paying the subsidies (which to me says “we certify this Tesla as perfectly safe”), and the bureaucrats who cut the cheques, bear no responsibility?

    People should start going after the pensions of the politicians who push this pagan cult sheet.

  4. If this were GM or Ford, they would have been off the road a long time ago.
    Lawsuits flying all over.

  5. I don’t see a problem here.
    The Tesla seems to be driving like a lot of people already do………….
    Maybe they just need a different focus group?

    1. Davis, exactly. And if the idiots driving these trash=cans ain’t smart enough to shut the auto pilot off, then who is to blame? I’v had to go down town Toronto about 7 time recently, and have cursed ever inch of the way each time, as people do NOT know how to think and drive at the same time. So, I’m all in for vehicles that take the thinking and driving away from stupid people who can’t drive

      1. “So, I’m all in for vehicles that take the thinking and driving away from stupid people who can’t drive”
        Big, generally red, “TTC” on them, too bad they can’t be forced to use them.
        I actually like the TTC when we are in Toronto, quite relaxing, but you do have to pick the time of day to use, unfortunately many can’t be choosy, then overcrowded.
        On the 400 series highways, the write up seems like just another normal day.

      2. So, who’s responsible when a self driving Tesla kills you and leaves your children as orphans? Who do they go to for justice?

  6. serious Q:
    is tesla near the tipping point yet? that ‘camel’s back’ straw that finally does them in.
    sadly, it appears that by some mechanism, the cars are still sought and bought.
    by the ‘believers’.
    maybe teslas and musk are the exception to that rule about mfg’ing and marketing a reliable and useful product etc.

  7. The financial comitment in buying a Tesla is insane.
    In Canada a Model S is $100,000.
    In Eight years it will cost, just to Replace the battery system another say 12-15,000 CAD (thats just for the battery by that time)…add another 5000 for install I’m sure. 20k every ~8 yrs…LMAO..!! Plus all the other wear parts a vehicle uses.

    For what.??
    For why.?
    Only for the soyboy man – bunned morons & imbeciles with more coin than brains & that actually buy into AGW / “Man Made” CO2 induced warming – (ignore all Volcanoes pls). I live next door to one.

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