Tesla has added another brazenly stupid new entry to its dubious safety record.
I was really confused why this was news because I remembered trying mad max mode. It’s fucking batshit how aggressively it merges on that mode. I turned it off immediately. Although the speeding thing isn’t new, all the autopilot modes will let you set the speed to 15 over or more by default
How is this even legal? If a toaster manufacturer introduces a setting “kill neighbour’s dog” it would get sued into oblivion.
I swear, America’s got issues man…
Because it goes 15mph over the speed limit, which is the prevailing traffic speed on most highways. Going 55 when everyone is doing 75 is far more dangerous.
We call it a democracy but it’s been an oligarchy for over a century.
No.
Oligarchy has waxed and waned throughout US history. It’s latest rise has only been over the last 50 years or so. They were kept thoroughly in check for 40ish years before that. It was after Nixon’s pardon that they realized they might be able to get away with it again.Yes I gave an overly simplified version… but the essential meaning is the same. Every gain was immediately lost, oligarchy is still 100% the description.
