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Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.

  • Master167@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    8 hours ago

    Does FSD exist in the US? If so, show your safety records in the US.

    Oh wait…

  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    10 hours ago

    Try putting radar units in like every other car company uses already. Oh, but those cost money.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      18·
      8 hours ago

      It’s not about money, it’s because Musk thinks self driving cars should work with only vision because human drivers do so as well, and nobody was able to push back against him.

      For other great Musk driven design decisions, see the Cybertruck. And IIRC the lack of physical door handles as the frameless doors have to open the window a little first or the weather seal gets damaged.

      • EisFrei@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Wasn’t that just his excuse because the radar units were unavailable during the pandemic’s supply chain issues?

      • Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Tinfoil hat time: musk demanded vision based self driving to create proto-flock.

      • JustPlainDave@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        7 hours ago

        It’s wild to me that so many people thought (and still think) that he’s a genius.

        At best he started on third and caught a lucky break and stole home. I saw through him when he first became a big public figure like 15 years ago. I don’t know how so many people I know, several who I thought were smarter than me, fell for his schtick.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Do you also believe his gesture was “my heart goes out to you”? Also do you remember when he said FSD would be ready in a few months….in 2013?

  • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
    19·
    3 hours ago

    Good. Tesla’s FSD seems to be easily the best in the market. https://www.motortrend.com/features/tesla-fsd-driver-assistance-system-best-tech-2026

    It’s good that EU is careful about this stuff, which is why the piloting is happening in a limited set of countries. But when it has been tested, why keep putting hurdles on the technology? People are literally dying in preventable human-caused car accidents every day.

    • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      3 hours ago

      People are literally dying in preventable human-caused car accidents every day.

      NHTSA reports human drivers to 1.9 incidents per million miles, and self driving cars companies refuse to give the mileage data. They are forced to give incidents rate data, and we can somehow estimate their milage and then we arrive at over 12 incidents per million miles for self driving levels 3-5.

      Oh in 2025 NHTSA changed reporting requirements, to more relaxed, with less supervision and oversight, and no pushback or controls, laid off 25% of workers and changed it’s director to Morrison who was at the time Apple Self Driving Car Chief Council.

      And even now it’s almost twice the rate of human driver per million miles.