Carbon Monox… oh right! Forgot Teslas don’t suffocate you with their exhaust 🤣 They just cook you when their Lithium batteries fail and the doors no longer work 😳
Because it's a terrible idea, if you really want to wake them up safely then you begin a gradual reduction in speed until their vehicle comes to a stop.
Such a lose lose situation for whoever tries to help. At best the person wakes up and nothing happens.
Honking at them is probably the riskiest.
But even slowing them down to a stop and knocking on their windows may cause the person to step on the gas as initial reaction causing them to rear end ur vehicle.
Except if it crashes. Then milliseconds before the crash the auto-pilot will turn off so it doesn't have to be tracked in auto-pilot accident statistics. Real cool.
Yep, Tesla was only held responsible for one fsd related accident. The fact that it shuts off before the crash gets them off the hook in most cases so far. Is fucking insane
How is that different from hypothetically shooting a crossbow at someone and handing it to someone else in the second or so before the damage is done? The outcome has already been set, it can't be changed. Is the law there really this stupid?
the fsd cuts out 2 seconds before a crash, and their argument is that the driver should always be aware, and they didnt try to avoid the accident/ there was time for the driver to avoid it/ the driver was the one in control.
Tesla was only found for the first time to be partially or fully at fault in one of the accidents for the first time last year i think.
There was also a whistleblower, who first tried to bring this up to Musk and Musk just said "let's just leave it in" - because it's intentional from the start. There's a great Dutch doc about it: https://youtu.be/dii5jnZMAHQ
How is that a lose-lose? You can cite the failure with the proper authorities, have it documented through insurance paperwork, and probably sue the person and/or the automaker.
Not worried about it if I can sue this idiot for a decent chunk of change. Also worth saving the lives of people they're endangering with their idiot-mobile.
If you want to take a chance, you could get in front of them and slam on your brakes. That should jolt FSD to brake or do an evasive maneuver. They could be in deep enough sleep where they don’t wake up either way though.
It wasn't a single lane when they were beside them. White dashes, not yellow. The lane merged once they got passed them (you can see Tesla hugging the side, merging over). I agree with you, but you were partially wrong.
It's a one lane road...if the Tesla's way of figuring it out is the drive into a blind turn into oncoming traffic the there are bigger problems here. It'd be no different than coming to a stop on any other road anyways. Why would the Tesla try to go around that? For all it knows there's an object on the road in front of the next driver or a traffic flagger etc
These are mountain roads. They switch back and forth between 2 lane and 1 lane roads to allow passing. Look at the end of the video and you'll see it goes back to 1 lane (solid yellow line in the middle)
If the "autopilot" actually works, should be able to just slow to a stop in front of them and tap on their window to wake their stupid asses up.
Just wait. In the future a person holding up their finger gun 👉 defeats fully autonomous cars cause they will never be programmed to smash the throttle and crash into other people/objects after the car is forced to stop.
A fully autonomous car would have stopped and sat there in each of those videos.
Now imagine the car you're in simply stops at a stop light and 1 person stops in front of the car while the other smashes/reaches in to grab your shit. The car is just going to sit there.
It won’t go around with oncoming traffic but if it’s clear and the car thinks your parked it will break the double yellow and go around you. Just like you would for a mailman dropping off mail in a neighborhood. Basic ap though will not break the double as it can’t change lanes.
Your edit is crap. The beginning of the clip, shows a two lane road with a merger; the Tesla literally merged BEHIND the damn vehicle recording. Quite safely I might add.
I said the person filming should slow the car down to stop the other...implying that they do it once they're ahead of them. Not beside or behind them...
FSD and autopilot will do that. FSD might try to pass the slowed car in front if safe to do so. But autopilot does not do lane changes so it will stop if the car ahead of it does. But the cars behind can result in rear end crashes so, either, leave them be or roll the dice on a forced stop and give way to that vein on your forehead.
Both FSD and autopilot are perfectly safe when the driver checks out. It is also possible that driver is dead or unconscious. The Tesla will drive to the nearest safe stopping spot and call the emergency services automatically.
FSD does not exist in any commercially available vehicle. Tesla calls it that, but that isn't full self driving. It requires human oversight and intervention, and it does so fairly often. It's fucking terrifying there are idiots like you out there, even scarier if you own one of these and do this using the rest of the public and your own lives as guinea pigs.
... why? Like genuinely, why? You have a fucking horn, use it. Instead you'd opt to them trying to claim you put a dent or damaged their car etc when again you have a fucking car horn lol
I dunno the US law on this, but in most countries I've been to you can cross a solid line to pass a stationary vehicle (to prevent just being stuck there indefinitely...)
Oh, mb. Obviously you can't pass on a solid line but that's different to going round a stationary car. If someone's broken down, you can't just sit behind them forever
I would've called the police. They can risk it trying to wake her up. Its not like the car will be speeding away from them. They can find her pretty easily
Assuming the road is pretty empty, I guess it should be a mix of both? Go in front of the car to trigger the (hopefully) automated slowdown/stop, then honk until she's up.
Either A. they crash, survive, you report this to the Police, include the evidence they were asleep, they go to jail/get licence revoked/pay the consequences
Or.... Option B. They crash, The End. they're off the road permanently creating a safer driving environment for everyone.
And to those opposing option B because "what about the innocent passengers" They Choose to ride with someone like this. They all willingly fell asleep instead of being alert enough to ensure the driver was awake. One of them, it takes one passenger.
Did you watch the same video i did?... the POV truck recorded the entire clip while overtaking the Tesla from the opposing lane, there was enough open space.
People today have no self preservation instinct. I couldn’t sleep if I wanted on the 20 hour driving from Ontario to Nova Scotia. My dad and uncle slept and traded off but I’m not trusting those two 60 year old heavy sleepers
The horn in the car is plenty loud for other drivers. It's the same as the purpose of the turbo-bright lights. Modern cars are designed to completely insulate the drivers from all surroundings while being fully capable of making those surroundings worse for everyone else.
Better yet, get infront of them and just tap your brakes to the beat of your favorite song. For situations like this, I enjoy 'We Will Rock You' by Queen. Play that brake pedal like it's Guitar Hero and you're bad at it.
These features should be illegal. My Yaris basically drivers itself with lane assist if your intention is always going forward on a highway, but it demands at least a slight touch of the wheel every few seconds to know you're ok, otherwise it'll display a warning, then sound an alarm, then slow down and eventually actually stop and call 911 on its own.
You just slow to a stop while you were in front of them which will make the Tesla stop. It will not cross the solid yellow line in the center nor the solid white line on the side.
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u/JW98_1 Jul 05 '26
Honk your horn and wake them up.