Posted on 07/06/2016 2:03:44 PM PDT by EVO X
A second Tesla has crashed in Autopilot mode, though there were no fatalities this time.
The accident took place about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The police report notes that a Model X was traveling east with two passengers on board when it crashed into a guard rail on the right side of the road. The force of the impact caused it to collide with the concrete median, and sent it across the eastbound lanes. It then rolled, and came to a stop on its roof in the middle of the road.
Luckily, the two passengers walked away without major injuries. The driver, Albert Scaglione, told the police officers who arrived at the scene of the accident that Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash.
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But the database SAID it was a 55 zone.... Oops, guess the car missed the speed restriction around the turn. In a lot of places out west driving the speed limit will get you flying off a cliff.
Almost all cars come with a tracking system so the government can tell where and when you have been and who else was in the vicinity.
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How about when the car decides to go somewhere on its own after dropping you off?
I’m sure they’ll be looking at the hard drive. I can imagine a driver having an accident and claiming “It was the car!”.
Not saying either way, just saying someone might try it, not fully understanding the logging devices.
I let get go of my steering wheel periodically to test wheel alignment.
“An art gallery I believe.”
Figures, those are the types to FULLY TRUST ‘technology’ and not even give a damn how it works or its limitations. I nearly got killed by an ‘artist’ when she would accelerate on the DOWNHILLS in San Francisco. You don’t accelerate, you DOWNSHIFT, but this babe figured the gas pedal would get you going faster and the brake pedal would never heat up. Even after she smelled the burning asbestos she still didn’t get it.
“This concept was tried in the early 21st century, Dr. Daystrom, with mixed results”
OUTSTANDING, for us Trekkies that remember this episode.
I thought you were referring to the rollover crash listed here. Your link is to a different crash complete with video.
After watching the crash, I understand how the other Tesla killed its owner with a stopped truck in its path.
There will be more of these wrecks, and only a matter of time before innocents are killed.
“Is it to eliminate unfettered travel?”
There ya go. It isn’t to get the indigent to be able to travel. It is to control our travels.
I recently got the entire digitally remastered Original series at Costco for $45. I’ve been enjoying them greatly.
“Get smart, and drive old.”
Won’t help these days, they also track and log your movements with very precision license plate readers (and they know enough to keep quiet about them). You would also need to somehow fool those devices.
Damn, I just canceled my Costco membership. But I did make VCR recordings of, I believe, all episodes (uncut, too), which I still watch.
LOL
They really are much better. I’ll see if they still have any.
Have a cell phone?
The saving grace is that licence plate readers can’t take control of the vehicle.
Anyone here ever see the film Demon Seed? It’s about a smart house. Well, husband is away on business, one thing leads to another, and she gets pregnant with Proteus’s synthetic sperm. Once it gets smart, then it gets a mind of its own. This story has been told countless times.
The Moto phone were from the time Google bought motorolas phone business
There is something utopian (and I don’t mean in a bad way) about a world with self-driving cars. In theory nobody would ever need to own their own car. Whenever you need one, almost anywhere, and at any time, one is available to you to take you wherever. The cars would go and charge themselves or fuel up as they need to, going “offline” as it were during those moments.
If you think about it, cars are very inefficient in the sense that most cars are sitting idle most of the time. Its very expensive from the point of view of money/time. If you only needed to pay for when the car was actually used by you, in theory anyway, it would cost everyone a lot less.
Of course, the only way this would be acceptable to me politically is if this were a private and competitive system. Not some kind of government will provide all transportation utopia. You pay per use, or, join a car club, or some other private system that made cars available on demand. There are a couple of companies that do something like this now, except they are not driverless. They just tell you where the car is parked and you go get it, or, someone brings it to you.
> Anyone here ever see the film Demon Seed?
I must have seen that film when I was young. I had memories of it by your description, and those memories occasionally popped into my consciousness over the years, but I never knew the name of the movie.
I see it was released in 1977. It’s not on Netflix, so I will look elsewhere. Thank you for putting a name to that very distant movie memory.
Yessir! thats the car for me,by God!
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