Posted on 04/19/2021 5:56:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oooh! I remember Toonces!
Nicely played
IIRC, National Lampoon’s “True Facts” column, back in the late 70’s, ran an excerpt about a Saudi prince who crashed an RV because he got it on the highway, put on cruise control, then got up to pour a drink.
I remember that!..................
Elon Musk Insists Autopilot Not Enabled in Fatal Tesla Crash ... In a tweet Monday, Musk said “Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled & this car did not purchase FSD [Full Self-Driving]. Moreover, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have.”
Ahhh! Another episode in the Great American "Nothing is MY Fault" saga!
"With respect to the fire fight, unfortunately, those rumors grew way out of control. It did not take us four hours to put out the blaze. Our guys got there and put down the fire within two to three minutes, enough to see the vehicle had occupants. After that, it was simply cooling the car as the batteries continued to have a chain reaction due to damage."
"We could not tear it apart or move it around to get ‘final extinguishment’ because the fact that we had two bodies in there and it was then an investigation-slash-crime scene. We had to keep it cool, were on scene for four hours, but we were simply pouring a little bit of water on it. It was not because flames were coming out. It was a reaction in the battery pan. It was not an active fire,” Buck said."
Reporting this bad should be criminal. Or at least actionable. Tesla should sue the reporters and their papers for liable.
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