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

    1. Meanwhile around the USA : The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a crash involving a speeding Tesla that killed two people in a Los Angeles suburb, the agency said on Tuesday. Spokesman Sean Rushton would not say whether the Tesla Model S was on Autopilot when it crashed on 29 December in Gardena. That system is designed to automatically change lanes and keep a safe distance from other vehicles. The Tesla had left a freeway and was moving at a high rate of speed when it ran a red light and slammed into a Honda Civic at an intersection, police said. A man and woman in the Civic died at the scene. A man and woman in the Tesla were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. No arrests were immediately made. An NHTSA statement said the agency has assigned its special crash investigation team to inspect the car and the crash scene. That team has inspected 13 crashes involving Tesla vehicles the agency believed were operating on the Autopilot system. Results were published in two of those cases, one of which involved Autopilot. Results are pending in the other 10 cases, the agency said in a statement. Messages were left seeking comment from Tesla.

      Another Tesla crash killed a woman Sunday in Indiana. State police said the driver, Derrick Monet, 25, of Prescott Valley, Arizona, was seriously injured after he rear-ended a fire truck parked along Interstate 70 in Putnam county. His wife, Jenna Monet, 23, was pronounced dead at a hospital. Derrick Monet told investigators he regularly used his Tesla’s Autopilot mode, but didn’t recall whether he had it activated at the time of the accident, state police Sgt Matt Ames said.

      Earlier this month, a Tesla struck a police cruiser and a disabled vehicle in Connecticut. Nobody was seriously hurt. The driver told state police he was using the Autopilot system and had looked around to check on his dog in the back seat.

  1. Why do Millennials thins we want to watch long videos of their boring lives? Just get to the point, you crashed your car. Yay for you.

  2. What a wuss.
    Dirty Car?
    What would the poor boy do on a wet gravel road?
    Boy looks/sounds like he has never worked in this short life.
    What was the point of that video?
    Maybe Elon knows his marks better than I ever imagined.

    1. A wuss and a complete automotive moron.

      So, Teslas hydroplane at high speeds on wet roads just like every other car on the road. Who’da thunk it?

      Is he seriously trying to blame his lack of basic driving knowledge and skills on Tesl’a auto-drive feature? Nice try, ignoramus.

  3. The guy is so smart he gets back into a car that just went off-road at high speed, and drives through the night at 80 miles per hour until the damaged bits finally fail completely. Brilliant.

  4. So how and why did his car crash on that vacant stretch of straight two lane Hwy? Lots of FaceTime video of him moaning about his dirty seat … but no explanation for the crash? What up bro? Why would I subscribe to your “channel”, if it’s just your “bro” rambling with a baseball cap on backward? How did you crash!? Did your selfie-stick get caught in the steering wheel? Did your autopilot get blinded by rain? Spill it, bro! Give me the “deets”?

    I am guessing this “bro” is an ASU student from California. He was a white, privileged, C- student in HS and couldn’t get into any CA University (except UC Fullerton) … so he got mommy and daddy to pay for out of state tuition at ASU (lots of HOT COEDs wearing short-short shorts) I expect mommy and daddy paid for “our bro” to RENT a Tesla for a “baller trip” to Bourbon Street, LA. Our bro told mommy that he would make so much COIN$ from his Vlog sponsors that he’d pay mommy back WITH INTEREST! Now he is regretting his decision to waive the extra insurance against negligent damage. In fact, because he is currently fighting Tesla’s insurance Co. over the damage charges, he cannot say anything about HOW he crashed his kewl new Tesla. Or whether the Tesla automatically crashed itself?

    How close do you think I have our “bro” scoped out? I should know … My Fraternity had a couple of these “dudes” way back in the mid ‘70’s. In fact, one “bro” like this guy was a total tool. Such a tool, that “Ted” eventually ruined his marriage, and destroyed the 3rd generation family business. But he had a “baller” time in college! He was God’s gift! … to himself.

    PS … that leaking hydraulic oil must really SCARE the hell out of Tesla owners who are convinced their magic-eco-carpets have “no moving parts” … and definitely NO OIL!!

    PPS … note that “our bro” was … well … ALONE. Bro couldn’t convince anyone to take the trip with him. Sad.

  5. We have to share the road with this brainless dolt. First, he plans on driving for 24 hours straight after being up all day and leaving at 23:00. Next, at 2:29 in the video he admits he was watching YouTube for so long while on autopilot the car turned off. Then, shortly after he is on autopilot in the the rain, in the dark, doing 75 mph, remarking on how bad the rain is and spins out from hydroplaning, then blames it on the rain and WIND!

    Throughout it all the boy remains clueless as to how irresponsible, immature and just plain stupid he is, and proceeds to post his folly on the internet. Also, I highly doubt that was hydraulic fluid, it was likely coolant leaking from his precious car. Heat destroys everything so, genius idea to push a damaged car another hour down the road. This moron strikes me as the type that would drive on the rim to get a flat tire fixed. Someone should forward that video to his insurance company.

    If he lived in the past he would have been shooting a lot of lame horses, oblivious as to why.

    Don’t forget to like and subscribe so he can fix his car.

    1. I find it hard to believe that Tesla Model 3 could hydroplane on the amount of water I saw on the straight, flat, section of Hwy. The curb weight of a “standard” Model 3 is 3,500 lb!! The long range, dual motor, version is 4,000lb!! Cars that heavy are not gonna hydroplane … even on worn tires.

      My fine Bavarian 335i weighs 3,900lbs and couldn’t possibly hydroplane in those same conditions. I highly doubt my extra 400lbs makes any difference.

    2. Heavy three-quarter ton pick-ups hydroplane. Has nothing to do with the weight of your vehicle. There is a football stadium in Honolulu that had entire 7,000-seat sections that could move from baseball-diamond to football-field configuration that were designed to move on thin layers of water.

  6. “Autopilot” indeed.
    That’s some advanced intelligent software… let’s a bozo do 75 to 80 mph… in the dark… in the rain… on what, a 65 mph stretch of highway?
    It’s like having a “Break Sound Barrier” button on the 737-MAX. “Press here to avoid a happy ending”.

  7. Get a duramax soyboy.
    Pat yourself on the back knowing you’re no longer a subsidy fueled parasitic leech on society.
    Refuel time is 5 minutes and agriculture needs the CO2

    1. Someone that patently STOOPID would literally destroy a Dmax….first time filling it with Premium GAS and wondering why his nice new DENALI # 85k USD wont run.

      Doing 75 on a downpoured rainy road & crashes….Sucks to be you Moron.

      One should have at least 32+ yrs old & wiping his own (_i_) before even being even allowed to buy one.

    1. LOL.

      The bro idiot virtue-signaller had to ship his wrecked robot-car back to the factory on a diesel-powered truck, he had to fly from El-Paso to ‘Nawlins on a giant hydrocarbon-gulping jet, and he had to fly back home so he could edit his stupid video.

      And yet, like you, I spent the ten-minutes thinking… “Who the hell wants white seats in their vehicle?”

  8. Greta should’ve been there to chase off the non Teslas away at the charging station: “HOW DARE they!”

    The kid said things like:

    • “beam of a tree thing I hit it”
    • “got rid of a plate underneath”
    • “Error Warning”
    • “hydraulic fluid leak”
    • “car’s B-E-E-P-ING for 29 minutes!”

    What a genius…he’s lucky it didn’t explode!
    Give the baby a lollipop!
    https://youtu.be/NVeLBUQ8wQk

  9. this video is the funniest thing I’ve watched in 2020.

    I bet the tow truck driver was more than happy to damage his POS Tesla lol!

    The special bonus feature was the youtube comments section.

  10. I’d just love** to see how one of Musk’s robot-cars would handle highway ‘9’ between Saskatoon and Calgary with some black-ice, or maybe some drifting snow.

    ** …as long as I’m nowhere near that road and these idiot drivers who don’t understand the concept of hydroplaning or that speed-limits are based on perfect visibility/dry weather conditions.

    What scares me most is that the government has allowed these machines on public roads. It’s bad enough when some idiot drives like this in a normal car in a rain storm or on black ice. It’s another thing entirely that Tesla engineers have designed a robot that is allowed to drive 75-mph in rain at night, with a malfunctioning tire-pressure gauge.

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