Oh, cool, so that’s what’s supposed to happen in a collision? I’ll totally buy one.
“We would just like to stress that this isn’t typical.”
The front fell off.
How is it not typical?
Well, it’s not supposed to burst into flames upon hitting a tree, for a start.
Dude’s BAC was reported as 0.26 in a toxicology report. Autopilot makes mistakes, but you’re supposed to be sober enough to correct them.
As for the car bursting into flames when it was allegedly only going 41 mph, that is surprising.
2.6‰ for us Europeans btw, America uses %
0.26‰ would only be slightly drunk with minor impairments, with that BAC you should be able to correct most “autopilot” mistakes
That’s not how it works. .26 BAC is .26 g/100mL so it’s the exact same in Europe. A BAC of 2.6 is not possible as you’d die before ever getting to 1 . Also ‰ is literally just for one thousandths percentages.
In my European mind, a BAC of 0.26 refers to a BAC of 0.26‰ which is fairly low, due to the lack of units.
But it referred to a BAC of 2.6‰, which is extremely high.
.26 is very high in American units when .08 is legal limit in a lot of places! So whatever the higher option is, most likely for non American units.
I’m pretty sure they’re correct. 0.26 per cent is 2.6 per mille (thousand).
For per mile. For BAC, not so much as I said it’s g/100mL.
Awesome. They specifically mentioned what it would be in European units for their understanding. They weren’t talking to you directly.
Sure, but there’s no % there, it just say BAC.
When there’s no % or ‰ anywhere, people assume its in the unit that is most commonly associated with BAC readings in their country. Which in the EU, is ‰
Your local news would say a BAC of 0.26, their local news would say a BAC of 2.6
That’s still inaccurate, sort of. I did more digging and found that Europe does use percentages for BAC, however they also use gramms/Liter. So it’s still % but one decimal place off because of L vs 100mL. Though maybe some local places in Europe use per mile to get numbers like 2.6 . Unless they specifically are talking about US BAC and converting it to EU BAC.
https://etsc.eu/issues/drink-driving/blood-alcohol-content-bac-drink-driving-limits-across-europe/
Ahh, so the bursting into flames is a feature, not a bug.
Gas cars sometimes burst into flames when they crash into trees. Why is this news?
Lithon-ion batteries commonly used in electric vehicles. and are known to burst into flames when confronted with any force. Their are safety measures in EV’S. But sometimes these safety measures aren’t enough. Chances are that Tesla model 3 wasn’t defective.
I thought this article was going to be about my neighbor who’s kid died in a Tesla that hit a tree and exploded into a raging fire.
Wtf Tesla?
Self driving fucking when, I just want to sleep in my car while it takes me places
That is called public transport, my friend. You can sleep all you like on a bus or train.
That’s not true, I missed my stop a couple of times because I slept
The short sightedness of this kind of comment just to beat the thoughtless rhetoric without solving anything.
Self driving happens it’s better then the average driver. People start thinking ‘I shouldn’t leave my car idle I have to hustle, it can drive people while I am at work’. Self driving cars turn into ride share. Self driving cars then start becoming a norm, as investment takes over and they connect to each other driving and braking together. Accidents reduce, costs of transport lower. Fewer people buy cars. Cars work like carriages together like a train but using existing road infrastructure. Programmed by logic based on law pedestrians and bicycles now priority but anyone else can still take a clean private carriage to their destination.
This is what you want.
I am totally on board with individual vehicles as a last-mile solution, and self driving vehicles are a great option for that, but expecting them to provide the entire trip puts us right back in the situation we find ourselves now with human driven cars.
Unless we are going to shrink these vehicles down to the size of a bicycle, mass transit for the bulk of the route will always win out in terms of efficiency.
Yeah ultimatums like what you say are definitely the way to achieve this.
Operating as intended.
It wasn’t defective. Catching on fire is just normal behaviour for a Tesla.
It was a successful test of the drive termination system.
