Your commute, their test track.
While the @NHTSAgov is busy doing nothing this Tesla driver almost hits a SCHOOL BUS while using a beta software.
He then recommends people to not try this.
Why is he an exception?? Stop the beta testing!!$TSLAQ pic.twitter.com/hre3p7iuxX
— Tess Laqué (@laque_tess) October 30, 2019
It isn’t the only close encounter. Full video here.
ya.
‘beta’
as in ‘alpha’ then ‘beta’, ie 2nd on the list.
we all know that. soooo, why indeed depend on a TEST version?
‘beta’ software is a good option given if you luck in you get a useful freebie.
and if it crashes, NO ONE dies.
beta and tesla . . . . . . . ummmm, dont belong in the same sentence.
methinks some brainwashing going on somewhere along the line.
Because, because, well because testing is just wrong. Reminds me of the Democrats and their relentless attacks on Trump. Sheessus…..get a life!
You don’t TEST a car on a public road. You test it on a closed track, where it can’t drive into a school bus full of kids. The rest of the country didn’t sign up to be crash test dummies, even if the driver in the video did.
Why would you even consider going hands free on a winding, narrow, tow-lane road with blind approaches and elevation changes? Some people are just dumb.
It’s a TEST. Shall I say it slower?
He’s imperiling everyone else on the road with his TEST. Its fantastically dangerous.
Large risk of head-on collision. Shall I say it slower?
Maybe its Forrest Gump and not Captain Dan.
Fans of self-driving cars … hate driving … and should take the bus instead of jeopardizing my life.
Beta software, alpha bus. Note the proximity of the bus tires to the double yellow. That’s right, the bus doesn’t care either.
I suspect as autonomous systems improve people will learn to take advantage them.
No break in traffic? Ooh a Tesla! I’ll just pull out in front of it because I know it will stop for me. Soon it will be fashionable to play chicken with Teslas on CA SR 1 or any tree lined two lane.
Heh.
Dammit, some times a scam is just a scam. Shall we allow people to die for the global warming scam. They will not die from global warming. They may however die from climate change when we can no longer grow food or heat our homes because idiots believe idiots. I sincerely hope Jesus Christ returns before we all destroy ourselves.
Next time, just shoot musk out past the sun. In his other roadster. Where is the consumer demand for a driverless car? Anyone, anyone? There is none. STFU and go away.
You are very wrong, there is a huge demand. The elderly, the daily commuter, those too young to drive, the people leaving the bar, the potheads, the blind, the disabled, Kate, and on and on.
The demand is taxis, buses and trucking, and anywhere else that the driver gets paid. Regular consumers don’t want this.
The only people who want this are men like Jeff Bezos who consider it morally wrong to pay white men who didn’t go to the right universities a living wage.
You are not to be allowed to make a good living driving a truck. You are expected to join the army at 18 and be dead, crippled, or insane by 30—and be of no use to anything resembling a rebellion. Everything else (thinks Bezos) can be automated or outsourced.
I’ll drive myself thanks
Get back to me in 5 years. I’ll wait.
You think they’ll iron all the bugs out in 5 years? You’re dreaming. They won’t even have self-driving streetcars in 5 years. The ones that run on rails. No way.
You FAIL to understand. Some of us actually LOVE driving. It’s the closest thing I can get to a being a fighter jet pilot. Hint: develop my first FLYING CAR, as promised in the 1950’s, and I’ll be fully on-board with your “high” tech.
oh, aaaaaand as for the immediate future of ‘self driving’ in general, feel free to google the results of relying on
certain software plunked into the digital brains of a 737 Max.
I’m bullish on self-driving cars. They’ll be as safe or safer than human drivers within five years. Tesla is a hype machine right now, unfortunately, and they’re being sloppy. The real improvements are being made elsewhere.
That said, this incident isn’t Tesla’s fault. If you load up your mission-critical system with beta software and take it into a high-risk situation, the results are on you.
“They’ll be as safe or safer than human drivers within five years.”
One word Daniel: snow.
Driving a vehicle in adverse conditions requires the full attention of a highly trained human being. -Maybe- they can design a machine that can manage traffic and weather, eventually, but they’re certainly not going to do it in five years. At the moment they can’t drive safely in Phoenix AZ and California, perfect blue sky, clear and dry.
A brother in law of mine has the latest version of a Honda SUV. He showed me just how hard it would break when coming up on someone who was leaving the highway while we were doing 110 km. The braked gently at first but as the car in front braked harder the Honda braked very hard. It was effective and my brother in law did not touch the brakes. I only had one question for him, that was, how would he handle a braking circumstance like that on a snow or ice covered road? The car would have skidded severely and maybe even lost control. Nope, don’t want my cars doing what I am paying attention.
From 2027:
“This is your computer pilot speaking. my computer navigator and I welcome you to flight #649 from New York City to Vancouver BC. Your robot flight attendants will now brief you on safety procedures. Oh, did we mention this is an electric plane powered by Elon Musk Tesla batteries? Isn’t technology great?”
I ain’t flyin’ no more if that happens. No f’ing way in hell.
There is a self driving bus manufacturer in Airdrie. I think they build busses for the Edmonton airport
I too am eager to see the “Self Driving Car” become a fact.
That will mean we have actually cracked the Artificial Intelligence barrier.
Of which there is zero evidence to date.
Also my driving App will become a true game changer.
Imagine if you will,the joy when faced with hundreds of self driving automobiles plugging the road, of a personal EMF generator and command override.
“All go Right”…har har har.
So far the only evidence from self driving car promoters,is that they fundamentally do not understand the environment they are seeking to simulate. Do these “special” wee people even have drivers licenses?
Or even the vaguest idea of what a professional driver faces every day?
If we could produce a true artificial intelligence,how would you convince it to risk the insanely dangerous variables that every human accepts each time they fire up their wheeled machine?
And even more fascinating, to me,Who is liable?
Who accepts responsibility?
Oh right..”it’s a test” that will get you off the hook.
If you are an irresponsible nitwit.
Imagine the variety of angry retorts and actions one can respond to “I was just testing,when I rammed your children’s bus”.
I will be “just testing” when you get mounted on the bumper of your “self driving car…No harm done..Right?
The driver had to avoid 2 crashes in the video and said “A little too close” several times. Drunks do a better job driving.