One guy was in the passenger and the other guy was in the backseat, so unfortunately no. They could have been giving handies but unlikely.
Fucking idiots. What did they expect? Tesla cars are not meant to be driverless at all.
I heard on YouTube that people can bypass by buckling the seatbelt? I guess all models don't have weight sensors on the seat?
Not a good one as Musk is publicly against more secure methods like cameras or more sensors.
This needs to be illegal holy crap. I was gonna say you still have to put pressure on the steering wheel when you do this so it knows you're "awake" but this would explain a lot...
My lawnmower had a sensor in the seat that detected if someone was sitting there, and I think some of the other electric vehicles can actually track your eyes if you are not paying attention. Not sure what he's got against more sensors.
His take is that people should be "responsible". I am not sure DoT will agree with him long term.
There's supposed to be someone sitting in the driver's seat with their hands on the wheel. I have no idea how they got it to work with no one in the driver's seat.
There's going to have to be a reckoning with these batteries over how they can be effectively put out much quicker and with less wasted resources.
isn't how to handle a battery fire pretty common knowledge in fire departments now? They shouldn't have to contact Tesla to figure out how to stop a battery fire...
Reminds me of a bad dream I have from time to time
To be fair though, autopilot on planes doesn't mean the pilots can just walk away. Pretty sure at least one pilot is always sitting in their seat, awake and potentially in control of the plane.
"autopilot" in common usage often suggests "thing that works on its own". It's suggestive and while I'm not blaming Tesla for this incident - those people knew what they were doing was illegal and super dangerous - I do think their PR is not helping.
I bet you the engineers 100% did not want to name it that and someone from marketing overrode them.
I just did a quick search. Apparently the best advice is to just throw massive amounts of water at it. And if possible, elevate the car or build a dam around it so water can reach the entire battery or keep the water pooled in the area.
If we keep thinking like this, we will never achieve an autonomous society. You will always find morons that abuse technology for whatever reason.
i thought either foam or powder is the better solution vs... 30,000 gallons of water. If using water, you shouldn't also stop putting water on it as soon as the fire is out, it needs to be doused so it doesn't.... re-light.
