Robotaxi Drives Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed… Tesla Influencers Describe It as "Excellent." - FuelArc News
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Here is video of a Tesla Robotaxi driving at twice the speed limit down Austin streets and over speed bumps. Oh, and it sees a deer! This drive is a good illustration of Tesla’s FSD suite being almost ready for use on public roads. Unfortunately, “almost” is good enough for horseshoes and hand grenades, but […]

Come for the video of a Tesla Robotaxi driving double the speed limit and hitting speed bumps like they are Mario Kart ramps…

… But stay for the conversation about social media silos and corporate disinformation campaigns!

  • KayLeadfoot@fedia.ioOP
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    8 days ago

    “the source is a fake website…”

    Well, no, it’s a real website. You really visited it, you didn’t hallucinate that.

    “… with the only articles being about criticizing Tesla”

    I’m the automotive equivalent of a muckraker, so yeah, Tesla does enough weird stuff that I talk about them a lot. They’re hardly the ONLY news I cover.

    Take this article, for instance, it was on the front page of Hacker News for a couple days, got decent circulation in European automotive magazines, too: https://fuelarc.com/tech/pop-up-ads-in-your-jeep-the-latest-stellantis-innovation/

    Believe what you like, but the videos in that article are just videos, it’s not like those aren’t first-hand driving footage just because you dislike where you found them.