y’all not got bendy bollards? most bollards are bendy.

is that just a Chicago thing? they don’t trust us with solid bollards, it would be a mass-casualty-incident instantly

A non-existent car is ALSO safer than a human-driven car, so it’ll sound weird coming from an automotive journalist, but I totally agree. There’s no car safer than a railway car.

The human safety supervisor of a Tesla Robotaxi who crashed was apparently sleep deprived and having a mental health episode, so, if you think self-driving cars will insulate you from human foibles, just you wait. The futures going to get real weird!

Broadly I agree, though. The goal is better-than-human. It really shouldn’t ever cross a solid line, though.

That was this case, it’s all self-reported so take it with a grain of salt, but it was interesting food for thought: https://electrek.co/2026/07/28/tesla-self-driving-manager-rolling-hazards-lawsuit/

I actually looked into that…!

The Google Maps interface lets you see when the street was imaged. It’s been that way since 2024, at least. A helpful Redditor shared the link to it.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VZRjSc325Kg7Vpq17

I’m bad as an automotive journalist. What I lack in skill, I make up for with effort and comedic timing

I’m honestly surprised that a Tesla Model Y fit in this gap. Maybe it ran over the first bollard a bit?

Edit: And, IDK, “managed to get out appropriately” in this case would unfortunately mean throwing it in reverse and doubling back through the cross-walk, I think. It’s never a good idea to run stuff over to get where you’re going.

This is how it do.

Also, hey, Taco gang, lfg!

Naw that’s pretty standard today, too! I’m in a 2021 Toyota Tacoma, that thing is bomb proof, I could spray a firehose in the main cabin and the worse damage I would do is, IDK, maybe shorting out the cabin light?

Love ya, thanks for letting us know

Interestingly, it appears to drift in the videos - unclear if while it is powered on if it exceeds the depth rating. I lean towards no? I can’t find any extended section of the video where it is either foundering or floating while in motion.

It 100% exceeds the depth rating later (like in your screencap), but it’s floating or sliding into deeper water after being bricked.

Pressurizes battery compartment, lifts the suspension to maximum height, and triggers a few off-road adjacent drive train features IIRC

Well, that’s what the manual says, but this Cybertruck’s battery pack was about as pressurized as a submarine with screen doors, so your mileage will DEFINITELY vary

😂 Some of the time, the jokes are hard to shoehorn into the articles. This time? The jokes practically wrote themselves

This got me thinking, you’re right, how can it be a boat if it can’t float?

Turns out, everything is bigger in Texas, including the legal definition of what constitutes a boat.

Is it motorized, above 14 feet in length, and afloat, docked, or stored on Texas waters? Then it’s a boat that needs to be registered, fam.

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Digging a hole with his tires?

what’s the difference between a 200 pound average male passenger and a 2026 Cybertruck RWD at 6,117 pound curb weight?

It’s mostly in your head, I feel like.

Boonhet is correct on this. The rescue vehicle getting a running start, that works and does not damage the vehicle when done correctly (it’s slower than you might think).

You can watch a Youtube video if you want to see it done correctly, but the straps designed for the purpose are cheap, I’ve got one in my Tacoma just in case.

I mean, there are traffic violations, and then there are traffic violations - if there’s a dead body at the end, it was the second type.

Neither is desirable, but it would actually be a big win to create a tech system that drives a car that produces fewer fatalities per mile than the average human, regardless of whether or not it generates speeding tickets or other inconveniences.

That’s my opinion, anyway. I won’t downvote you, I only downvote comments unhelpful to the overall conversation, you’re not being unhelpful, I just disagree with you.

I was actually surprised that Waymo had only thousands of units in operation.

That being said, 3,000 commercially operating for years with zero fatalities, that’s not nothing. It’s not a ton, it doesn’t change the world (much), but it isn’t zero. Tesla’s result so far rounds down to zero.

No, no, the AI calls APIs.

That is to say, A.ctual P.eople in I.ndia

Do they know how to scale up an autonomous taxi service? I mean, maybe? There’s no sign of that anywhere in the Tesla data, though.

The original target was Robotaxis to cover “half the US population by the end of 2025,” so we’re nowhere close to on-target, and those goals weren’t given with any asterix on the earnings call when they were declared. I don’t see any reason to move the goalpost, it’s just a miss taken to a funny conclusion.

https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/tesla-earnings-stock-price-elon-musk/card/musk-s-early-conference-call-comments-focus-on-autonomous-driving-PRJqKKBVRfnHS7TMLDis