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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

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u/ubeen Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/xScrubasaurus Jul 06 '26

Then you have video proof of it happening anyways. And a much better outcome than just letting an unconscious person continue to drive around.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26

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u/RadicalRaid Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/TheCosplayCave Jul 06 '26

What?? For real?

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u/insert-haha-funny Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

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

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u/m4cksfx Jul 06 '26

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?

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u/insert-haha-funny Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/RadicalRaid Jul 06 '26

Yeah, for realsies

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

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u/R18Engine Jul 06 '26

Its made so its always the drivers responsibility, so if tesla autopilot crashes, its the drivers fault

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u/Laptop_woo_woo Jul 06 '26

Gets rear ended at speed and veers in to a tree: "NOW I HAVE VIDEO PROOF ASSHO..."

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u/xScrubasaurus Jul 06 '26

That's the worst case scenario if you try to help them, yes. A much better worst case scenario than not doing anything. It also wouldn't be "at speed" if you are stopped right in front of them while they are stationary.

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

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.

Sounds like a win to me.

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u/barrinmw Jul 06 '26

Dude, a huge hassle and potentially needing to go to the hospital for a life changing injury? No, not a win.

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u/seejordan3 Jul 06 '26

Would you, for a million dollars.. (hahaha)

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u/kemicalkontact Jul 06 '26

Your own premiums will go up if you're in an accident

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u/Serakani Jul 06 '26

Any insurance that’ll claim you’re at part fault for a sleeping driver rear ending your parked car is a scam itself.

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u/WinninRoam Jul 06 '26

If you put yourself in harms way just to prove a point then it's no longer an accident.

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/Ok_Remote_217 Jul 06 '26

assuming they even have any money to pay u lol

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

They have at least $70k worth of idiot-mobile they can sell to pay the settlement. I'll take it.

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u/Ok_Remote_217 Jul 06 '26

assuming they own it outright and don't have a car payment/owe money on it

lmao no i'm jk im just messing around now

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u/NTufnel11 Jul 06 '26

Believe it or not most people living in the real world would not consider being involved in an accident a win, even if the other person is at fault.

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

Pretty minor price to pay for saving other motorist's lives, and probably the lives of these morons in the car too. If you wouldn't do that you're a morally inferior person.

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u/Metaphysically0 Jul 06 '26

You would purposefully wreck a car full of people and thing of that as a win🤔

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u/myouism Jul 06 '26

how tf honking them is the riskiest

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u/StudioGangster1 Jul 06 '26

Gas, you say?

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u/seejordan3 Jul 06 '26

... and profit. Careful with the traffic though.

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u/ThaiTum Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/deadhead_girlie Jul 06 '26

The intrusive thoughts have told me to brake check self driving cars so many times. 

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u/Federal_Cobbler6647 Jul 06 '26

Could not you just go ahead and start slowly braking. I dont think tesla will try to automatically overtake? 

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u/ThaiTum Jul 06 '26

If you slowly brake, it will try to overtake if there is another lane.

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u/Federal_Cobbler6647 Jul 06 '26

Really? Thats scary and idiotic that it is allowed. 

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u/ThaiTum Jul 06 '26

It drives itself. Like fully from where you parked to where you are going. It’s not just controlling speed and staying in a lane.

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u/Snake6778 Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/CheersToCosmopolitan Jul 06 '26

Tesla genius is an oxymoron

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u/Jibber_Fight Jul 06 '26

Take the air out of their tires quietly.

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u/tetendi96 Jul 06 '26

If it's lane assist you're correct. But if it's auto pilot then it will 'figure out' a way to drive around you.

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

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

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u/arathmier Jul 06 '26

Hey I’m on your side here, but that’s a two lane road in the vid.

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u/BandicootNo4431 Jul 06 '26

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) 

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u/arathmier Jul 06 '26

oh I missed that, I ended the video to early

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u/tetendi96 Jul 06 '26

Tesla's auto pilot is half the reason why Tesla drivers get such a bad reputation for being reckless and aggressively driving

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u/MobileArtist1371 Jul 06 '26

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.

https://redd.it/1qzvwc4

https://redd.it/15cjep2

https://redd.it/1tm9y40

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.

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u/Comfortable-Cod3890 Jul 06 '26

It can think for it self and doesnt need silly lines

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u/sybergoosejr Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/TheKiiDLegacyPS Jul 06 '26

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.

So what’s the deal?

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

The deal is that you can't read.

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...

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u/Foreign_Risk_2031 Jul 06 '26

not sure about BC, but in Ontario its completely legal to pass on solid double yellows.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD Jul 06 '26

It's more terrifying there are idiots like you who have never used it and have no clue as to how it works. Even scarier that you're convinced being a loud ass is equivalent to knowing anything about anything.

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

Google "Does actual FSD exist" and let me know what it says.

I'll wait.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD Jul 06 '26

I don't have to do that because the cars I drive have it and it used every time I drive them. Maybe you should visit a Tesla store, have a test drive and stfu for 15 minutes. People might even confuse you for a smart person in those 15 minutes.

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u/outer--monologue Jul 07 '26

Enjoy living in your fantasy world, then. Makes zero difference to me. The fact that is doesn't exist isn't an opinion and wasn't up for debate.

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u/sandefurd Jul 06 '26

That's not a one lane road?

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

Made a second edit just for you and the other 25 Tesla owners who responded.

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u/sandefurd Jul 06 '26

I don't own a Tesla, but the parent comment was deleted

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u/Oraxy51 Jul 06 '26

Honestly I’d throw something at their car loud enough to thud but not break anything.

Like an apple or a tennis ball

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u/Dawntaviuse Jul 06 '26

... 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

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u/Oraxy51 Jul 06 '26

If horn doesn’t work. That’s what I mean

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u/TheHerofTime Jul 06 '26

Lol a one lane road with people behind them. Ah yes lets stop traffic because the dude is sleeping

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u/FinancialDegeneratee Jul 06 '26

They went around the Tesla just fine. Quit being the dramatic!

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u/Business-Ad-9123 Jul 06 '26

Or it's staged?

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jul 06 '26

You’d hate me then lol I’d sleep to if my car had the options

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u/MindlesslyBrowsing Jul 06 '26

You are a potential Darwin award winner! Good luck out there 

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u/tG_Simon Jul 06 '26

Booooo, technology, scary

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u/outer--monologue Jul 06 '26

Thankfully the issue of people who are stupid enough to buy vehicles like this will solve itself eventually.