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aetherspawnyesterday at 11:13 PM7 repliesview on HN

Ok, 3 things.

1) I’ve put enough kms on FSD - it’s taken me across Australia a few times, probably 10,000kms in total - to know that it isn’t going to drive into a house.

2) Even if FSD is enabled, there’s loads of things you can do to create an accident like press the brakes or accelerator pedals, which doesn’t necessarily disengage FSD right away, so let’s just wait for the telemetry to get released.

3) Regardless of who was controlling it, why did this guy let his car jump the kerb and go through a house? Why was he going fast enough?

Sad for all involved.

Edit: my experience is HW4 by the way.


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0cf8612b2e1eyesterday at 11:18 PM

“Wait for the telemetry”. Like that case where it took years and reverse engineering to pull the footage that Tesla claimed did not exist?

Surely, we can trust Tesla will be providing all relevant information to the authorities without delay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/29/tesla-a...

paulryanrogersyesterday at 11:16 PM

> 1) I’ve put enough kms on FSD to know that it isn’t going to drive into a house.

Is it possible FSD on this vehicle was a different version? Can't FSD change from one drive to the next, based on software updates or even external conditions?

Perhaps you drove in a different region with differing conditions?

> 3) Regardless of who was controlling it, why did this guy let his car jump the kerb and go through a house? Why was he going fast enough?

Why is it called "Full Self Driving" if the person behind the wheel must control (or even just monitor) the speed?

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toasty228yesterday at 11:34 PM

"I coded like 500 line of C, I know for a fact segfaults cannot happen"

That's how you sound

chaostheoryyesterday at 11:31 PM

> Regardless of who was controlling it, why did this guy let his car jump the kerb and go through a house? Why was he going fast enough?

There are decades worth of man-machines UX research to prove this: the more you lean on automated systems to perform a manual task, like specific vehicle operations, the more your reaction time and relefexes for that specific motor skill will suffer.

Non-level 4 driver assistance tech should only be used for helping prevent accidents and not pretend to be actual full self driving

water-data-dudeyesterday at 11:52 PM

"I haven't encountered a rare edge case, therefor the rare edge case must not exist"

sumenoyesterday at 11:26 PM

"I've driven drunk enough times to know I'd never cause an accident"

deadeyeyesterday at 11:23 PM

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