In 2022, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) logged 758 complaints about Teslas suddenly decelerating for no reason on American highways (NHTSA ODI, 2022).
Drivers describe their vehicles “slamming the brakes” out of nowhere, with one shaken owner telling reporters, “It just slammed the brakes”.
These aren’t isolated glitches. U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis recently gave the green light to a class-action lawsuit, citing allegations that Tesla knowingly withheld warnings about this dangerous defect.
Meanwhile, their stock is up today.
You had to be deep in denial already or just a bit ignorant if you trusted autopilot to begin with.
Surely Elon’s honest and prompt attention to detail is enough to assuage fears?
I trust it, but only because I’m suicidal. /s
I posted this in the past and it continues to be true. Autopilot is getting worse overtime. Tesla is feeding autopilot driving data into its system to learn to drive better. The problem is, it’s learning its worst habits. Phantom braking, hesitation in turns, unable to keep a steady speed. Every update I try it and rarely last more than a couple miles. It’s not that I want to use it, I just want to see if it’s getting better or worse.
The wild thing is, turning off autopilot and using lane keep and cruise is fine. They warn you that lane keep is old autopilot so it’s not as reliable, trying to urge you into using full autopilot so they can harvest more data. But that “old” autopilot was built before all the updates that made the full autopilot system unusable to me
If you’re wondering, I’d like to not be driving a Tesla. But it’s paid off, worth basically nothing in resale, and I got it as a CPO with free charging and autopilot for life. It costs Tesla money to keep it.
*braking.
If you’re wondering, I’d like to not be driving a Tesla. But it’s paid off, worth basically nothing in resale, and I got it as a CPO with free charging and autopilot for life. It costs Tesla money to keep it.
Honestly just put a bunch of anti-Elon bumper stickers on your car and keep it until the battery shits the bed, it will be worth more as scrap metal. It’s costing you nothing and actively costing Tesla something.
I get the stigma of having a Tesla, but some people did in fact buy it before Elon’s fascist tendencies were widely known. Its the people who buy one now after knowing how much more of a piece of shit he is that piss me off (like one of my neighbors who got a Tesla recently).
If you have a Cybertruck though, fuck you, I hope your $100k+ death trap bursts into flames after a slight pothole taking you with it. Your car is actively making the roads less safe and you knew who you were buying it from.
Very true, I wasted no time putting some stickers on to show I dessent. The dumpster trucks are really the only ones you can be sure are driven by assholes.
If you’re wondering, I’d like to not be driving a Tesla. But it’s paid off, worth basically nothing in resale, and I got it as a CPO with free charging and autopilot for life. It costs Tesla money to keep it.
SAME! I’m doing my part to cost them money. But mine is a 2014 so only AP1 hardware. I love my autopilot. Just lane assist and TACC. I’ve used other lane assists and have hated all of them.
Unless they decide to mitigate the cost you’ve become to them
Hey here’s a crazy idea: How about you just keep both hands on the wheel and drive your fucking car. And if it’s in the USA, well over 90% of the people on the road don’t even have a third pedal to negotiate. Put your phone down, keep your eyes on the road and in the mirrors, and drive your fucking car.
No, no, no, you see applying logic is just to radical. Instead just do what ever corps tell you and don’t question it.
They signed up to be beta testers. They found bugs. Why would they sue Tesla?
This isn’t an issue with the Full self driving that people signed up for the beta for. It happens with the cruise control too.
