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Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” (fuelarc.com)
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This Tesla Robotaxi demo video is a mess.

Watch as the car makes a left turn from the wrong lane, ignoring a red light. The safety operator steps in, and the car comes to a stop… right in the middle of the intersection.

Eventually, it completes the illegal turn after blocking traffic for 45 seconds, which raises the question, what exactly is the safety operator there for?

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[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey you know what, lets just throw a million or more of these things into the real world right now. The sooner we can rack up the body count the sooner we can get grifters to scream into the zeitgeist about government control or whatever. Idk let tesla fuck up their value and live in infamy

[–] Auth@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As dumb as this tech is in its current state, it still seems safer to me than human drivers. So far they've had very few accidents. Human drivers will do a dangerous maneuver to get in front of you then at the red light they'll get out of the car and try kick your ass.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dont have an issue with any of them except tesla. I dont trust their "camera only" method on top of their phantom braking and acceleration, plus whatever else can fail and prevent you from getting out of the car

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

yeah Tesla is by far the worst of all the brands.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They also have very few cars. There's like 10 or so of these robotaxis. If you grab 10 human taxi drivers and follow them around for a few months, you'd also expect them to have on average 0 accidents.