I have an idea, and maybe I will patent it. While not for me, self-driving should be standard equipment on all vehicles, with the condition that it is automatically activated when a driver is doing the driving and not paying attention, speeding, and/or weaving in and out of traffic. Self-driving would be programmed to adhere to the speed limit and stay in the right lane, with no passing. In other words, self-driving should be mandatory for terrible drivers and auto-activated.
That'd be a good middle step, whether mandated by government or incentivized by insurance. Tech will, of course, need to get better and more widespread first.
I can tell you that if fsd is enabled, if you look down at your phone it obnoxiously alerts you to knock it off lol
My Lightning does that, and IIRC, so did my crappy little Ford pickup truck I bought before the Lightning. It also detected if I was dozing off.
Eventually, when V2I is implemented, it’ll be very safe and reliable. Until then, though, a human needs to be paying attention unless in perfect and unchanging conditions - which are rare in most people’s driving experience.
Whoa there. Pretty sure that’s not happening anytime soon. The tech could be 100% perfect.
Try reading this again.
Saw a Waymo self-driving taxi in Phoenix near the airport last week. It was kind of freaky.
This was posted on Electrek, not an EV or Tesla hate site:
Also, this:
Tesla Cybertruck ‘exploded’ in front of Trump Hotel
Doubtful. An explosion in proximity to a large gas tank would likely do more damage than a fire, but that would depend on many factors.
The Las Vegas Sheriff is the one who started said conversationThe Teslerati is already out in force spinning like mad. Oooh what a strong truck.
If there was a serious bomb, instead of just fireworks, it would've blown the panels off the truck and turned bits of it into shrapnel. But hey, go buy a cybertruck which is built to protect hotels from fireworks. Protecting occupants in a collision, maybe, maybe not so much. But we can save the hotel - woo hoo!
And the comment about how there was a detonation system? I mean, duh. It's fireworks, there were as many detonation systems as there were fireworks.
That just makes it funnier. The Teslerati are quoting world renowned structural engineer and explosive ordnance expert, Sheriff McMahill, about it.
60 to 90 will charge very slowly. At the lower levels it charges much faster. Slows down as it gets full.
Other factors would be if it’s a 250 or 150 charger and how many other people are charging there. An hour for 30% does seem off though
The explosion is always going towards the path of least resistance, I'd be interested to see a comparison with similar explosive's in a traditional truck, but I assume steel quarter panels would still direct the explosion upward.
This was a 250 KW charger and 5 of the 8 chargers were in used. Do these estimate change while charging?
That looks accurate. Seeing how much of the 250 you’re actually getting when charging tells the story too. It will update as you go based on battery state and how much power you’re actually getting. For a longer trip I’ll charge at home up to 90 before I go, but then only up to 80 or less depending on what I need while I’m out. Hotel valets more and more are charging while you park at night which is a nice feature
I think the important thing is how people inside the truck do in the various types of collisions people experience in motor vehicles.
For EV fires, one tool firefighters use is a large thermal blanket that is placed over the vehicle to cut off the flow of air (containing oxygen) to the fire. Same principle as when a frying pan or pot catches fire on a stove top, place a lid over the pan or pot, and the fire will extinguish. Whatever the Tesla had in the rear cargo bed, and it looked like fireworks, if it was ignited, the cargo bed would cover would have at least partially contained the fire and the deployment of fireworks. Think the tonneau cover is standard on the CT, and I think it is a pretty sturdy cover. So yes, it helped, but it is basic common sense.
I know you have a lot of rules for what experts can be trusted and when, so just checking here since you linked the article. The expert in said article says it has nothing to do with the vehicle, but rather driver behavior, right?
