...and lo and behold https://electrek.co/2018/01/24/tesla-autopilot-federal-scrutiny-again-model-s-crash/
"It wasn't my fault, Officer, it was on autopilot..!"
Search found 15 matches
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:24 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Safety systems are there to be gamed...
- Replies: 57
- Views: 82278
- Mon Jan 15, 2018 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Have diesel cars got a future?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16878
Re: Have diesel cars got a future?
This obviously wouldn't work for all electric vehicles but could potentially be OK in the medium term. But electric only vehicles don't pay road tax and nor did most hybrids At the moment, no... I was thinking further down the line as Road Tax diminishes from diesel/petrol fuel the Government will ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:59 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Have diesel cars got a future?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16878
Re: Have diesel cars got a future?
Road pricing . . . ? GPS linked, by class of road / route, time of day, etc. That would seem to be the logical conclusion. It has been proposed previous but I think we're getting to the point where technology can now make it possible. The argument fore was that you obviously only pay for what you u...
- Tue May 30, 2017 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Damaged new car
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14956
Re: Damaged new car
I'd certainly be a bit miffed if that happened to me... Presumably, if your colleague had arrived to pick it up, he hadn't yet 'signed on the dotted line' for it so he wasn't compelled to take/accept it... I'd be inclined to to say, 'No worries, tell me when you've got a replacement. I'm not having ...
- Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:42 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: First fatal accident for self-driving car
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12123
Re: First fatal accident for self-driving car
Kind of depressing (although inevitable) that the focus is on the Tesla failing to brake rather than why the truck driver pulled across someone coming towards them :roll: ...or why Joshua Brown, the driver of the Tesla, failed to take control. I can just see a huge lawsuit looming ...with Tesla fee...