GRtak
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It doesn't look all that revolutionary as far as the drive setup. It looks like it has fairly standard drive axles that are driven from the middle. That is fine, as long as it works as advertised.
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It doesn't look all that revolutionary as far as the drive setup. It looks like it has fairly standard drive axles that are driven from the middle. That is fine, as long as it works as advertised.
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Watch Tesla FSD Cause an Eight-Car Pile-Up the Same Day Musk Made it Available to Everyone
The crash on the San Francisco Bay Bridge sent nine people to the hospital just hours after Musk opened the "Full Self-Driving Beta" to all Tesla owners.
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I'm sorry, but while the Tesla came to a stop unnecessarily, it did so in a slow way and every driver crashing into that should have been able to avoid that accident by keeping a proper distance and paying attention.
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This is the video so people don't have to go through Jalopnik crap. While it's clear that the Tesla initiated the pileup, the reaction from the drivers behind was pretty poor. Cars aren't braking until they're right up to the crash despite brake lights ahead of them, and the gap between the pickup and black SUV (3rd and 4th in the pileup) was way too small to stop safely.
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Welcome to the Bay Bridge. Once I changed lanes because of a slowdown I saw coming up, and the person behind me ended up rear-ending the car I was passing. I witnessed it so I stayed to give a statement once the police got there. The guy who caused the accident tried to say that I was driving erratically and somehow caused him to crash...while being in front of him the whole time. Ended up having to provide a video statement to the PD, so I recreated the accident with a hot wheel, and two plastic cat magnets. Never heard anything back about it... [/coolstorybro]
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Government investigation finds Tesla FSD was indeed engaged during the Bay Bridge pileup
The US Department of Transportation has released the NHTSA agency's special crash investigation findings of the Model S-caused pileup in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day. The accident in the Bay Bridge tunnel has occurred with Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta mode active indeed, just as the...
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