https://nitter.net/chiweethegod/status/1591844601056628742?t=zCvDCOyj1kptVEFwOoycaA&s=19

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Tesla responds to the incident in Chaozhou, Guangdong: “the driver did not step on the brakes all the way” the family remains adamant the car was uncontrollable. story developing.

    I wasn't sure if the video had been sped up until it showed other vehicles, must have been going at least 80mph on a city street?

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Fuck Tesla but this looks like somebody getting confused and hitting the wrong pedal.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It doesn't look like that at all? They'd notice their mistake pretty quickly if that were the case, the video goes on for a close to a minute and it's clearly across multiple cctv cameras.

    • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Nah, auto acceleration has been a problem for Tesla, this is not a single incident.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      uncontrolled acceleration is its own class of car issues. non-ai cars can have it too and its a very serious electronics problem. solution is to put car in neutral asap but sometimes there are issues that dont let you do that or people dont think fast enough to do it when the car suddenly goes to max speed.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Twitter as a means of juicing stock prices with artifical hype is already well established.

    One big theory for Musk's buy was to put the screws to algorithmic traders that mine the platform for stock tips.