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But the battery safety can be a bit questionable. Very hard to extinguish a battery fire.
this is why LG is literally in the billion dollar hot seat right now with GM
But the battery safety can be a bit questionable. Very hard to extinguish a battery fire.
One aspect of Tesla vehicles that is heavily marketed is their lethal rate of acceleration. In the wrong hands, and to a far greater extent than an ordinary internal combustion engined vehicle, a Tesla or similar electric car is a weapon liable to injure its occupants and other road users (or people sitting in their own houses, as above). Tesla's current most modestly priced vehicle, the Model 3, advertises a 0-60 mph time of 3.1 seconds, and that is the first figure that appears on its webpage on the official British version of the Tesla website.Said not to have been on autopilot.
Florida driver plows Tesla into house, killing 2 people
One aspect of Tesla vehicles that is heavily marketed is their lethal rate of acceleration. In the wrong hands, and to a far greater extent than an ordinary internal combustion engined vehicle, a Tesla or similar electric car is a weapon liable to injure its occupants and other road users (or people sitting in their own houses, as above). Tesla's current most modestly priced vehicle, the Model 3, advertises a 0-60 mph time of 3.1 seconds, and that is the first figure that appears on its webpage on the official British version of the Tesla website.
Model 3 | Tesla
In the late internal combustion era, the only production vehicles with rates of acceleration like this were extremely expensive 'supercars' made by the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, and the like, but now Tesla has made it possible in what is supposed to be an ordinary family saloon car.
I have some questions about this. This appears to be in the USA, given that the driver states their speed in mph, and they are driving on the right side of the road. The only country in the world with this combination to my knowledge is the USA.
I thought that the national speed limit in the USA was 65 mph. If in Autopilot, why is the vehicle going at a speed faster than this? I seem to recall that in one of the early Autopilot deaths, the car was going faster than 80 mph and accelerating at the point of impact.
In Britain, we drive on the left. On multi-lane roads, we have a 'keep left' rule meaning you should stay in the left lane unless overtaking (not always followed by humans, but I would think that it would be mandated in any autonomous driving system). Is there not a similar 'keep right' rule in the US? If so, why is the Autopilot system keeping the vehicle in the middle lane? The right lane does not appear to be an exit on this stretch of road. Or is the Tesla not sophisticated enough to make a lane choice? Musk has been claiming--falsely--that his cars are 'close to level 5' automation, when in reality they are only level 2, but from all the hype surrounding Tesla's self-driving I would have thought at least that they would be able to choose a lane on a three-lane highway.
The Twitter user mentions that he has ordered a replacement Model Y, which is Tesla's latest SUV. Presumably the vehicle involved in the collision is also a Model Y. It reveals an issue with SUVs: their tendency to roll over due to higher centre of gravity. They do not offer enhanced safety, but compromise on both occupant and pedestrian safety. The safer option is the sedan.
We do have a keep right rule on federal highways and state roads and there are posted signs dtating 'slow traffic keep right' and all trucks also are to keep to the right unless passing another vehicle...Federal highways typically have a posted speed of 65 mph and state roads have a posted speed of 55 mph...I usually drive about 5 mph over the posted speed whenever it's safe and clear to do so on any given road and never had a speeding ticket...I have driven up to 15 mph over the posted speed on federal highways when the road was clear enough or if I was within a group of cars in the left lanes going at a higher speed and I'm following the flow of traffic...I rarely break that 15 mph threshhold over the posted speed...
- Traffic-Aware Cruise Control: Matches the speed of your car to that of the surrounding traffic
- Auto Lane Change: Assists in moving to an adjacent lane on the highway when Autosteer is engaged