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.
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.
Try putting radar units in like every other car company uses already. Oh, but those cost money.
Except now every other company is switching to camera based system? So if radar is this good, why are companies moving away from it?
No they aren’t. Everybody except Tesla uses both.
Geely and xpeng, the two other alleged market leaders are already using camera only or in oricess of it.
RIVIAN is also already not going to use them once they’re done collecting their initial training data.
So who is this “everybody”?
You might’ve mixed up radar and lidar. There’re a few Chinese makers who’ve cut out using the lidar, but absolutely nobody other than the Muskrat are dropping the radar in favor of shitty cameras who become useless the moment they get dirty. Which does happen outside. Especially in winter, which is coming.
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 that sort of thinking that makes me realise how he a trauma get on so well (when their not falling out)
the windows retracting to open the doors is pretty standard on cars nowadays
still stupid, though. my '08 just pushes the window up against the weather seal and it still works perfectly fine
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!
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.
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.
Tinfoil hat time: musk demanded vision based self driving to create proto-flock.
The window thing is pretty common I think. My 2008 mini used to do it
That doesn’t make it good or sane. The car needs to have power for the door to open? What?
Wasn’t that just his excuse because the radar units were unavailable during the pandemic’s supply chain issues?