Posted on 04/18/2021 10:32:23 AM PDT by DFG
Two men died after a Tesla 'on autopilot with no one driving' crashed into a tree in Houston before starting a huge fire that took 32,000 gallons of water to extinguish.
The fully-electric 2019 Tesla Model S slammed into the tree in Carlton Woods at around 11.25pm on Saturday night before bursting into flames with the passengers still inside.
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman said an investigation had found that 'no one was driving' when the accident happened, with one man sitting in the passenger seat at the front and the second sitting in the back.
Officials told KPRC 2 that the $80,000 vehicle was moving at high speed when it failed to negotiate a cul-de-sac turn, ran off the road and crashed.
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What if you’re wrong. What if the first one is deadly and the last two are annoyances?
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Yeah
How many people were driving and missed a turn?
They will keep improving the software and the sensors until these machines are far safer than humans drivers, if they aren’t already.
We already have the reverse scenario. Your anti-lock breaks are second guessing you and overriding your commands when they believe you are being unsafe.
Now we are advancing to machine making the decisions, and man overriding the machine. Except when they don’t but should have.
Apparently NO ONE....
How ironic one of their environmentally friendly electric cars did that.
Try to imagine how many fires will occur where there are 50 million of these firebombs on the road.
I pray.
People hurt/killed by these vehicles need to file big lawsuits against states who allow these vehicle on their roads, making everyone on the roads guinea pigs or test subjects for Tesla.
An acquaintance with a Tesla was going to show me it’s auto pilot feature by calling it over from across the parking lot. I begged him not to do it.
“I don’t want the car hitting something—or someone hitting the car—just because you called it over to show me!”
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A battery that weighs seven 210lb. passengers all on it’s own. For a passenger vehicle that seats...five?
“When one designs, builds and markets a vehicle specifically for the demographic that has more money than common sense,”
After WWII the US owned the private plane market. Today, few manufacturers survive. Those that still build planes add 100% to the cost and profit to handle the lawsuits. I laughed when I saw that we’d have a private flying car by 2024. Even if the tech was here and reliable, you’d still have idiots like these guys. The lawsuits will stop the flying car. I am astonished that Tesla hasn’t been buried already by the legal business. It’s as if the legal business has colluded to wait until there are so many of Tecla’s around that they can live off the lawsuits for the rest of their careers.
Should'a just turned on the headlights and the emergency flashers. Dead battery in no time.
It sounds like the idiots defeated the safety features that Tesla included in their system at the insistence of the NHTSA and Tesla’s own lawyers.
Two idiots are dead and one less Tesla is on the road. The world is better off as a result.
The moron herd is self thinning...
Good riddance...
Buy an electric car, they said. Make sure it’s an electric car with the auto-pilot feature, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.
I probably use 32,000 gallons of water every morning in the shower.
This was in Spring Texas, just north of Houston and the location would have been handled by your typical small suburbia type fire department.
My grandmother was one of 13 sisters. One boy was born to the family, but he died after a week. Some say he couldn't stand it.
I remember the Magliozzi’s (”Car Talk”, RIP Tom), were dead-set against cruise control, said it ought to be removed from all vehicles, and was the #1 underreported cause of accidents.
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