Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
Why are people still buying those Nazi-mobiles??
Deplorians
Does FSD exist in the US? If so, show your safety records in the US.
Oh wait…
Oh wait what?
They’reTheir safety record in the US isn’t good. The news of a crash by the cars happen regularly.
Try putting radar units in like every other car company uses already. Oh, but those cost money.
It’s not about money, it’s because Musk thinks self driving cars should work with only vision because human drivers do so as well, and nobody was able to push back against him.
For other great Musk driven design decisions, see the Cybertruck. And IIRC the lack of physical door handles as the frameless doors have to open the window a little first or the weather seal gets damaged.
It’s still about money because he sold cars with only cameras to get FSD.
If he admits that can’t work now, he’s opening himself up for lawsuits.
One benefit of it getting cold in Canada now is those stupid ass trucks are getting off the streets. They absolutely cannot survive a Canadian winter.
What do you mean a bare metal shelled vehicle can’t withstand the ice melt chemicals used in a country/region with actual seasons?
There’s no greater feeling than out-wintering a broken down nazimobile in my beater compact
Stahp! I can only get so erect!
Wasn’t that just his excuse because the radar units were unavailable during the pandemic’s supply chain issues?
Tinfoil hat time: musk demanded vision based self driving to create proto-flock.
It’s wild to me that so many people thought (and still think) that he’s a genius.
At best he started on third and caught a lucky break and stole home. I saw through him when he first became a big public figure like 15 years ago. I don’t know how so many people I know, several who I thought were smarter than me, fell for his schtick.
The window thing is pretty common I think. My 2008 mini used to do it
there’s no FSD because it only exists in marketing language
What are you talking about?
Do you also believe his gesture was “my heart goes out to you”? Also do you remember when he said FSD would be ready in a few months….in 2013?
Good. Tesla’s FSD seems to be easily the best in the market. https://www.motortrend.com/features/tesla-fsd-driver-assistance-system-best-tech-2026
It’s good that EU is careful about this stuff, which is why the piloting is happening in a limited set of countries. But when it has been tested, why keep putting hurdles over the technology? People are literally dying in preventable human-caused car accidents every day.
People are literally dying in preventable human-caused car accidents every day.
NHTSA reports human drivers to 1.9 incidents per million miles, and self driving cars companies refuse to give the mileage data. They are forced to give incidents rate data, and we can somehow estimate their milage and then we arrive at over 12 incidents per million miles for self driving levels 3-5.
Oh in 2025 NHTSA changed reporting requirements, to more relaxed, with less supervision and oversight, and no pushback or controls, laid off 25% of workers and changed it’s director to Morrison who was at the time Apple Self Driving Car Chief Council.
And even now it’s almost twice the rate of human driver per million miles.
Enough bribes and they’ll cave. They just need to pretend they won’t.
