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Feds probe nearly 3M Teslas after crashes linked to self-driving tech
nypost.com ^ | Oct. 9, 2025 | Thomas Barrabi

Posted on 10/09/2025 10:20:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN

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1 posted on 10/09/2025 10:20:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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My wife is a better driver than any Tesla.


2 posted on 10/09/2025 10:26:33 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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The probe was described as a preliminary evaluation that could escalate into a recall if the agency finds problems that threaten public safety.

Who needs a recall when you can just push a patch to the self-drive software wirelessly?

3 posted on 10/09/2025 10:33:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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AI, self driving cars & EV’s are in their infancy. What else can be expected? The craze for new technology is often crazy, literally.

I want nothing to do with any of it until all is proven safe and economical. Those that jump at it are fools.


4 posted on 10/09/2025 10:34:20 AM PDT by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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Never buying an EV or going into a self driving car.


5 posted on 10/09/2025 10:40:39 AM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving,” or FSD, feature, which is intended to complete driving maneuvers while requiring the driver to keep paying attention

Then it's not full self-driving, is it? If I have to pay attention, I might as well just drive the thing anyway.

6 posted on 10/09/2025 10:43:58 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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"X" is absolutely FULL of videos this week by people bragging in amazement about how incredible Tesla v14 "FSD" (Full Self Driving) mode is. The videos show how a Tesla backed out of an intersection when the light changed to red (it had gone too deep into the intersection, then the light turned red), how it navigated an owner's long, twisty dirt driveway, how it self-parks in garages. I guess they forgot to mention it plays bumper cars on the streets. Of course, the problems being investigated are no doubt earlier versions.

Tesla releases FSD v14, first major update in a year, here’s what it can do
By Fred Lambert
Oct 7 2025

7 posted on 10/09/2025 10:44:03 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Great at starting stuff but quickly loses interest. Must have others to finish his inspiration or brain farts.

Alfred E. Newman’s alter ego.


8 posted on 10/09/2025 10:51:13 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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Then it's not full self-driving, is it? If I have to pay attention, I might as well just drive the thing anyway.

This was the problem I had with the TV Show Knight Rider. They come up with a flawless fully self driving car and they put it in a two-seater sports car? Come on, you might as well just drive it! What I wanted was having it in an RV so I could have it drive me to school while I took my last-minute shower and got dressed.

And 40 years later the tech is STILL letting me down.

9 posted on 10/09/2025 11:03:26 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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I agree, the thought of getting into a self driving auto is terrifying. None for me.


10 posted on 10/09/2025 11:09:37 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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Exactly. Its actually worse, having to babysit it and continually judge whether or not to take over, than to just do it yourself.


11 posted on 10/09/2025 11:09:39 AM PDT by vmpolesov
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I feel 10 times safer with the Tesla driving than my wife personally.


12 posted on 10/09/2025 11:10:47 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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You didn’t tell her that, did you?


13 posted on 10/09/2025 11:13:43 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: redfreedom

I don’t want it near me on the roads until it works.


14 posted on 10/09/2025 11:14:55 AM PDT by CodeToad
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“I want nothing to do with any of it until all is proven safe and economical.”

If they run into you, you will have “something to do with it” anyway, if you survive.


15 posted on 10/09/2025 11:17:34 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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yes, and she feels safer too especially on those high overpasses that she hates to drive on.


16 posted on 10/09/2025 11:27:38 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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Ditto.


17 posted on 10/09/2025 11:39:47 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: V_TWIN

Too lazy to drive? Call an UBER/LYFT. Don’t expect the car to do it for you.


18 posted on 10/09/2025 11:43:25 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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My city, in its infinite wisdom has unleashed a fleet of “fully automated” public transport vehicles on the downtown streets......but there is always an operator behind the wheel “just in case”......doesn’t sound like the manufacturer trusts there own design and tech too much does it?

One of ‘em has already lost control and hit a street light before the human could gain control.

This town can piss away money on boondoggles like nobody’s business. SMH


19 posted on 10/09/2025 11:48:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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It’s very difficult for most people to remain fully aware and alert when they’re not directly involved with a process. If I’m supposed to be responsible for what the vehicle does, then I’m going to be in control of it too.


20 posted on 10/09/2025 11:58:43 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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