It was in The Times and not as funny as Viz. Could well be bollox but I assumed that it was accurate as I hope that I am not paying to be lied to!
The Times is owned by Murdochs News Corp. If they reported the grass is green, I'd still look out the window to check. Viz is probably more reliable.
Could well be true. I understand that when Murdoch got The Times, he had to undertake to stay the f%*k out of interfering with the journalism. Still not a bad idea to be sceptical.
What if it wasn't an accident and all these Tesla incidents are the start of Skynet? They're assassinating us.
One self driving Tesla has a crash is headline news but how many cars will have crashed with humans at the wheel in that time?
I think that in developed countries like the UK, USA, and Germany, many, many thousand were killed every day in motor accidents. I assume that with lockdowns, that number has declined by a lot. Yet when telling you how many the pandemic has killed today, I've never hear anyone say, "well, if the normal number of people had been out on the roads, x,000 would have snuffed it in RTAs!
Something doesn’t quite add up. IIRC, the driver’s seat of a Tesla has a weight sensor “kill switch” type device in order to prevent aspiring Darwin Award nominees doing precisely this type of thing. So unless they piled 50kg+ of weights on the seat and worked out a way of strapping them down to keep them in place (which you’d think would have been reported) then I call BS. More likely is that the driver was thrown into the back seat by the impact with the tree.
And whilst we mention Viz... You should never take a promotion whilst driving in case you 'career' off the road.... brrrrm tshhhh...
Fuck me, you're right @PerryL ! I'm putting a tenner on this for the Darwin awards winner!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56799749
Just spotted this. I remember years ago a court case going on in the US (where else) about a blokes family suing a motorhome manufacturer. The daft old bugger thought cruise control was a magical auto pilot. He set it at 60mph and popped in the back to make a cuppa You can imagine rest....
Only a Yank! But if the Tesla does have a weight sensor on the driver's seat -which does make sense - then, yes, the story is probably BS!
All cars have a weight sensor under the seats. That's why you get the annoying alarms when someone doesn't latch their seatbelt...
Both the BBC and The Times have that story but, as you say, cars have weight sensors to nag you about seat belts. Yet nobody seems to have picked that up. Even if Tesla were no using that switch to cut the engine then this 70 year old would have to be fit and agile enough to climb into the back whilst in motion. Not very likely.
