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Patrick
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OCT 29, 03:29 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cvxjet:
Also, I don't like gull-wing doors- if you are upside-down after a crash, you cannot open either door...at least with normal doors, you can open one door no matter how the car ends up.
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Hopefully getting out through a window is still an option... although if the windows are electric and the power supply has been disrupted, then the situation could get tense! 
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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OCT 29, 06:57 PM
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Wonder if they'll put these bolts into the doors...
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Patrick
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OCT 29, 08:44 PM
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Chris, I don't think an embedded video can have a specified start time. The altered link above should work.
That's an interesting way of opening those doors!
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Cliff Pennock
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OCT 30, 02:54 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by IMSA GT:
Here's the worst one where the Apple exec was driving and playing games on his phone. The car misjudged the lane paint in a construction zone and put him head on into a barrier.
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Not sure what he was using since FSD on Teslas won't let you use it if your eyes are not on the road or your hands are not on the steering wheel (older versions). I'm pretty sure he was using "Lane Assist" (which many, many modern cars have right now) and not Full Self Drive. Lane/Break Assist is stupid and should never have been allowed in cars. It uses simple sensors to follow lines on the road or detect objects closing in quickly. Full Self Drive is a totally different beast.
And yes, horrible accidents happen with self driving cars. But the number of times horrible accidents have been avoided thanks to self driving cars far outweigh the accidents. FSD already is much, much safer than any human driver out there. Just watch the many YouTube videos and I'm sure you will be impressed as well. I specifically like the parts when the car suddenly brakes for apparently nothing, and you can here the driver saying that he thinks it's a "fluke" only to find out when editing the video and he watches the footage from all cameras that the car actually avoided a (bad) accident. Mind you, the car watches everything 360° around itself all at once. Not just where it's nose is pointed at as with a human driver.
Personally, I would feel much safer if all the cars around me were FSD cars. The stupidity of drivers I encounter every single day when I'm on the road is baffling.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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OCT 31, 01:07 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Wichita:
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This is actually a really, really, important statement. Teslas are under a microscope. But if we compared a similar vehicle, with similar characteristics... an autonomous vs non-autonomous vehicle... which one would have the higher collision rate? Although we can clearly look to a couple of examples of failure, I would not be surprised to see the Tesla actually being significantly safer, autonomously, than other non-autonomous vehicles.
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