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- europe@feddit.org
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.
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.
It’s still about money because he sold cars with only cameras to get FSD.
If he admits that can’t work now, he’s opening himself up for lawsuits.
One benefit of it getting cold in Canada now is those stupid ass trucks are getting off the streets. They absolutely cannot survive a Canadian winter.
What do you mean a bare metal shelled vehicle can’t withstand the ice melt chemicals used in a country/region with actual seasons?
There’s no greater feeling than out-wintering a broken down nazimobile in my beater compact
Stahp! I can only get so erect!
Wasn’t that just his excuse because the radar units were unavailable during the pandemic’s supply chain issues?
Tinfoil hat time: musk demanded vision based self driving to create proto-flock.
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.
The window thing is pretty common I think. My 2008 mini used to do it