In a video documenting his experience, Entrepreneur Thomas Remo picked up his £64815.22 ($82,000) electric vehicle (EV) in Irvine, California. Remo’s excitement turned sour when the truck “broke not even six inches off the lot” and “failed another 30 times” throughout the first day.
If it breaks down six inches off the lot, why the fuck would you even drive it any futher?
Caused by a steering failure that limited vehicle speed to 4mph…
While steer-by-wire systems promise benefits like improved handling, potential downsides include increased maintenance costs. More importantly, as Remo’s experience shows, any glitch in the system could lead to a complete loss of control.
He’s lucky it happened immediately and not half an hour later in traffic.
But this is what happens when you do zero quality control.
Same error Dave Sparks got after driving in sand dunes?
Even aside from Tesla’s shittiness, there’s no way in Hell I’d ever drive a steer-by-wire car from any manufacturer even if you paid me.
I can understand the sentiment but it is the direction we will go…we’ve been using it in aircraft for about 75 years now
Yeah, but not in fucking Cessnas (or other small general-aviation aircraft)! Having it be used in commercial airliners (i.e. public transit) with FAA oversight is very, very different than having it be used in owner-operated automobiles with fuck-all oversight of anything except emissions.
When Tesla gets a reaming from the government of the same intensity Boeing is getting (and has their systems tested and certified by the government with the same amount of rigor that aircraft are certified) then maybe I’ll support the tech being used in buses. But even at that point I still wouldn’t tolerate it in my privately-owned car, unless maybe it was Free Software or I designed the damn thing myself.
Small GA aircraft don’t use FBW systems because of weight, they do however use hybrid systems that don’t weigh as much. I have a lot of faith in engineers doing their job…that being said I have little faith the C-suites that run the show. In all honesty with the level of automated driving tech drive by wire is the least scary thing to me.
I have a lot of faith in engineers doing their job…that being said I have little faith the C-suites that run the show. In all honesty with the level of automated driving tech drive by wire is the least scary thing to me.
As a software engineer, I don’t own any car made after 2008 (in part) because I don’t trust the programming in modern cars. My objection is more about what the developers programmed on purpose – e.g. this – than bugs they may have introduced by mistake, but still, I’m not really a fan of any computerized nanny functions that are more complicated than ABS.
On a related note, this XKCD applies to more than just voting software.
When we get there, I won’t be paying for it. Capiche?
“Do I believe all the reports of terrible build and quality control issues? Or ignore reality because muski made a new I you just have to have”
Why buy Tesla. Shitty cars made by a shitty man
Hah.
There’s a Cybertruck parked on route to campus and it’s become a running joke in my class. It’s certainly a head turner, but really not in the way the owner probably intended.
My favorite statement so far is that it looks like a car that hasn’t finished loading into the scene, yet.
This dude needs to be cited for some tickets since he clearly violates several laws in the video:
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Reckless driving when he pulls out of the Tesla parking lot onto the highway and floors it. The speed limit is 55MPH and he was doing 57 or 58 when the critical failure happened and he let off the gas, so he probably would have gone way over the speed limit if it weren’t for the vehicle actually having a critical failure (we see indication of this intention below).
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Excessive speeding; video clearly shows the truck at 107MPH on the freeway on a public road after they “reset” the critical failure
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Distracted driving: Non-hands-free access of his phone while driving and admitting to almost side-swiping other vehicles due to distractions / unfamiliarity of the vehicle… but lets be honest, he is goofing around more than he should if he doesn’t know how to drive the vehicle safely yet.
In addition to that… it sucks to pay $82k for a vehicle that breaks so quickly; I’ll never buy a Tesla. I have nothing against drive-by-wire, but I don’t trust Tesla / Elon Musk
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They’re going to make an upgrade package that turns it into a BOAT?
Imagine turning it into a boat and electrocuting your whole family because it leaks water everywhere…
That’s what will happen.
