I think that is much better and more accurate, yes.Smart Cruise Control would probably be better to allow the morons of our society to be safe. Fair?
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I think that is much better and more accurate, yes.Smart Cruise Control would probably be better to allow the morons of our society to be safe. Fair?
I can’t reason with you. Autopilot is a dumb name. It has a meaning that is beyond what it can and should do. People are also dumb. It should be changed.
I understand adaptive cruise control and lane assist, yes.And it’s not that you can’t “reason” with me, it’s that you cannot sufficiently persuade me to see it the way you do. I have used it for the last 18 months. I know what it can and cannot do. Have you ever used it?
Why would you try convincing me of something you clearly don’t understand from experience?
I think that is much better and more accurate, yes.
OkGreat, and I’m telling you, it takes all of 1 drive to understand how it works and its limitations. The name is irrelevant to practical experience. The name is meaningless.
Ok
I think California called it false advertising, is that correct?
Great, and I’m telling you, it takes all of 1 drive to understand how it works and its limitations. The name is irrelevant to practical experience. The name is meaningless.
People get in serious wrecks EVERY day with cruise control.
No one is calling for cruise control to be banned. Or that it is dangerous.
We all understand there are bad/stupid drivers and that driving is inherently an unsafe/risky activity. We all accept that.
Tesla is being singled out because the current administration is willing and able to slow down Elon Musk and his companies as much as possible. The FCC Commissioner just stated as much.
The FCC commissioner that was appointed by Trump? Well…sure…he’s a straight shooter when it comes to Musk.
I mean: if you want to cite him as an unbiased source, feel free.
Recall is a common term for mandated fixes in pretty much any regulated industry. Certainly in health care.Let me ask you this @Formerly Rockymtnole
Why does the NHTSA resist calls to reclassify Over The Air Software updates as something other than “Recalls.”
It COULDNT be that Tesla is the ONLY automaker capable of doing such a thing. And they would singularly benefit from a more accurate description.
That their cronies in the corporate media would then no longer be able to run MISLEADING headlines about 2 MILLION TESLAS RECALLED.
????
You don’t seem to be refuting anything he is saying. I will take that as admission he is correct.
The FCC commissioner that was appointed by Trump? Well…sure…he’s a straight shooter when it comes to Musk.
I mean: if you want to cite him as an unbiased source, feel free.
Dude. He’s an appointee of Donald Trump and has spouted the usual right wing nonsense when it comes to communication regulations (opposing net neutrality and reforming section 230).
You’re advocating like he’s some unbiased cog in the government’s machinery.
He’s not.
Dude. He’s an appointee of Donald Trump and has spouted the usual right wing nonsense when it comes to communication regulations (opposing net neutrality and reforming section 230).
You’re advocating like he’s some unbiased cog in the government’s machinery.
He’s not.
Let’s say for argument’s sake, he is partisan. Does that make his observations and statements less true? NO! They are Facts!
Let me ask you this @Formerly Rockymtnole
Why does the NHTSA resist calls to reclassify Over The Air Software updates as something other than “Recalls.”
It COULDNT be that Tesla is the ONLY automaker capable of doing such a thing. And they would singularly benefit from a more accurate description.
That their cronies in the corporate media would then no longer be able to run MISLEADING headlines about 2 MILLION TESLAS RECALLED.
????
There’s no question he’s partisan.
So….facts? Really?
Anyway. Love the multiple replies. Anytime Musk’s good name is impugned.
But not obsessed. Nosireee.
I do agree that a software update is huge convenience for the consumer but let's not forget the reason for the update.
If 100K people were killed there would still be people shrugging it off saying it's only a software update.
Back to the important topic! Tell your boy to hire a decent designer to make his ugly as phuck cars more interesting than a 2000’s Taurus phenomenally!
Drag coefficient dominates Tesla styling with the exception of the Cybertruck. When battery density improves 40-50% or a generational leap in cell chemistry is achieved, styling will radically change. Unless you want 100 mile range vehicles, then sure, they could do traditional designs.
I don’t know whether you honestly don’t know the difference, or are being purposefully reductive. Cruise control can can be, and has been for decades, accomplished through a simple PID control loop…and only adjusts the vehicles throttle. Adaptive cruise control, lane assist, crash sense, etc are all more complicated/sophisticated controls…none of which have ever been marketed as “autopilot” from other car makers (to my knowledge).Man you must really hate Cruise Control.
I have a new GMC Sierra with adaptive cruise control. The system doesn't keep you centered in a lane it more bounces you from line to line. It does a good job slowing you down when traffic slows ahead, even taking you to a complete stop and then resuming speed when I have had turning traffic ahead of me. Also when I am on the interstate and some highways the car will start steering for you on curves, it doesn't have to be in cruise control for that, just need lane keep assist on.How are other car manufacturers autopilot features compared to Tesla?
I don’t know whether you honestly don’t know the difference, or are being purposefully reductive. Cruise control can can be, and has been for decades, accomplished through a simple PID control loop…and only adjusts the vehicles throttle. Adaptive cruise control, lane assist, crash sense, etc are all more complicated/sophisticated controls…none of which have ever been marketed as “autopilot” from other car makers (to my knowledge).
I have always thought the branding of these features from Tesla was a bit premature, but also think the headline “Tesla recalls all their vehicles” has a much more dramatic connotation than necessary.
Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.
By HYUNJOO JIN, KEVIN KROLICKI, MARIE MANNES and STEVE STECKLOW Filed Dec. 20, 2023, 11 a.m. GMT
Shreyansh Jain was ecstatic in March when he picked up his first electric vehicle, a brand-new 2023 Tesla Model Y. He used a sizable chunk of family savings to buy it with cash.
“We were over the moon!” said Jain, an electronics engineer in Cambridge, England.
His exuberance came to a “grinding halt” one day later, with 115 miles on the odometer, Jain told Reuters. As he drove with his wife and three-year-old daughter, he suddenly lost steering control as he made a slow turn into their neighborhood. The vehicle’s front-right suspension had collapsed, and parts of the car loudly scraped the road as it came to a stop.
“They were absolutely petrified,” Jain said of his wife and daughter. “If we were on a 70-mile-per-hour highway, and this would have happened, that would have been catastrophic.”
The complex repair required nearly 40 hours of labor to rebuild the suspension and replace the steering column, among other fixes, according to a detailed repair estimate. The cost: more than $14,000. Tesla refused to cover the repairs, blaming the accident on “prior” suspension damage.
Jain is one of tens of thousands of Tesla owners who have experienced premature failures of suspension or steering parts, according to a Reuters review of thousands of Tesla documents. The chronic failures, many in relatively new vehicles, date back at least seven years and stretch across Tesla’s model lineup and across the globe, from China to the United States to Europe, according to the records and interviews with more than 20 customers and nine former Tesla managers or service technicians.
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my vehicle (not a tesla) has this and i haaaaate it. Ill be cruising along behind someone and eventually i look down at my speed and see i am doing 5 mph under the speed limit.Basic Autopilot is cruise control, plus keeps your lane smoothly, plus reduces speed when approaching a vehicle ahead of you in the same lane to the speed of traffic.