Posted on 02/25/2020 3:27:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
“I was born and raised in Cali, as was my mom in the ‘30’s, and I’ve always called it Cali”
You are definitely qualified to call it “Cali”. One of my daughters who lived for awhile in California named one of her children “Cali” (middle name, she doesn’t use it).
Playing video games while driving? He might as well have used the local grade school field for target practice during recess.
We’re all lucky this dangerous moron is dead.
“Decades ago you would see a car slightly weaving and you would think alcohol.
Now... Phone.”
One of my fellow grey haired bikers told me recently: “We used to be scared of rednecks in a pickup with a shotgun Now it’s a teenage girl in a Toyoto with a phone.”
He bangs !
lol
“Sounds like that hasn’t been made clear to some drivers.”
Warnings are given to drivers who do not keep hands. on wheel or eyes on the road.
” Flying down the road controlled by sketchy software is just fine.”
Driver is to be in control at all times.
The Tesla system nags the driver periodically to touch the steering wheel to let the car know that the driver is paying attention. If not, it will eventually shut off the autopilot for the remainder of the trip.
But the system is defective in that it can be fooled by simple DIY hacks that inhibit the warnings and the eventual shutdown, as demonstrated in this video:
“How to trick autopilot in Tesla model 3”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFUwOwyvTlw
Tesla must be aware of this, but they don’t seem willing to fix the problem.
Wow. Then this guy was just asking for it, assuming the car warned him. If not, then it’s just common sense — just like when driving a regular car — which plenty of people lack.
So, where is the label “auto pilot” coming from?
The manufacturers or the drivers?
Could just call it Commiefornia - seems about right.
“But the system is defective in that it can be fooled by simple DIY hacks”
Sounds like the hacking drivers are defective.
What’s funny is, my mom always pronounced L.A. as Los Angle-us, with a hard “g”, and we’d always tell her she was saying it wrong.
Then I saw a bunch of old movies of Los Angelenos talking, and they all pronounced it the was she did, with a hard “g,” Los Angle-us.
Turns out people in the ‘30’s and ‘40’s pronounced it different than today!
She was a Rosie The Riveter for Lockheed during the war, and saw the actual Zoot Suit riots when they happened.
I miss talking to her about the old days. She remembers the 1932 earthquake vividly, it almost toppled their house.
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