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A 2025 Tesla Model 3 in Full-Self Driving mode drives off of a rural road, clips a tree, loses a tire, flips over, and comes to rest on its roof. Luckily, the driver is alive and well, able to post about it on social media.

I just don't see how this technology could possibly be ready to power an autonomous taxi service by the end of next week.

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[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Are those the ones that you can completely immobilize with a traffic cone?

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

A human also (hopefully anyway) wouldn't drive if you put a cone over their head.

Like yeah, if you purposely block the car's vision, it should refuse to drive.

[–] Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

You say that like it's a bad thing lol if it kept going, that cone would fly off and hit somebody.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

The same is true when you put a cone in front of a human driver’s vision. I don’t understand why “haha I blocked the vision of a driver and they stopped driving” is a gotcha.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably Zoox, but conceptually similar, LiDAR backed.

You can immobilize them by setting anything large on them. Your purse, a traffic cone, a person :)

Probably makes sense to be a little cautious with the gas pedal when there is an anything on top the vehicle.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

That and if you just put your toddler on the roof of the car or something or trunk for a quick second to grab something from your pocket.....VROooOMMM baby gone.