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Tesla 'Robotaxi' status check eight months in: a complete joke

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    patience_limited
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    As a palate cleanser, I encourage reading this essay, "The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology".

    As a palate cleanser, I encourage reading this essay, "The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology".

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    1. chocobean
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      Feels kinda gross calling "CEO said a thing!" journalism, when it's just propaganda, capitalism's "Leader Says ---" to the communist Quotations From Mao or Xi Thoughts It makes much more sense if...

      Feels kinda gross calling "CEO said a thing!" journalism, when it's just propaganda, capitalism's "Leader Says ---" to the communist Quotations From Mao or Xi Thoughts

      It makes much more sense if we stop wondering about why its news worth reporting, and just accept that because our society is bought by billionaire and they want us to personality worship them.

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  2. chocobean
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    I'm glad it's a joke, otherwise it's a death trap. A safety monitor here is a human whose sole job is to monitor the vehicle and take over when the robot fails, not an electric sensor kind of...

    I'm glad it's a joke, otherwise it's a death trap.

    Tesla’s own data reported to NHTSA confirms a crash rate roughly 9 times worse than human drivers, and that was with a trained safety monitor in the car.

    A safety monitor here is a human whose sole job is to monitor the vehicle and take over when the robot fails, not an electric sensor kind of monitor. (Source link from inside link)

    Nine crashes in approximately 500,000 miles: one crash every 55,000 miles. Human drivers average one police-reported crash every 500,000 miles. The incidents include driving on the wrong side of the road, hitting a cyclist, striking an animal at 27 mph, and requiring emergency intervention at a train crossing.

    These are extremely serious incidents they're not being transparent about, and that's with a dude in the car.

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  3. Wafik
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    I'm so glad I escaped the mind virus. I was a hardcore Tesla fanboy. I believed all the lies from Elon and even worked for Tesla at one point. It's amazing they still work on people with the years...

    I'm so glad I escaped the mind virus. I was a hardcore Tesla fanboy. I believed all the lies from Elon and even worked for Tesla at one point. It's amazing they still work on people with the years of evidence we now have for them.