Elektrek: "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night"
Elektrek: "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night"
I was testing Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta update last night (v11.4.7), and a new aggressive bug has nearly...
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Frankly, it speaks incredibly poorly to the NHTSA that this kind of behavior is allowed. "Beta testing" a machine learning driving assistance feature on active highways at 70+ miles an hour is a recipe for disaster. Calling it Full-Self Driving while also not having guardrails on its behavior is false advertising as well as just plain dangerous.
NHTSA hasn't had a permanent director in years.
I think NHTSA had a director for like... 2 or 3 months in 2022. But before that, it was blocked in the Senate. And before-before that, it was Elaine Chao's Department of Transportation and she was incredibly anti-regulation.
Step 1 is that the citizens need to recognize what has happened to the federal apparatus. We've gutted our own government and safety regulators. Not just NHTSA, but also SEC, FTC, etc. etc. The anti-regulators / libertarians have the momentum with regards to laws in the past decade, and this is the natural result.