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I’m not going to defend Musk’s statements about the capabilities of the system, which I think are irresponsible. Nor am I going to defend his post-accident tweets, which I think (as a person) are ghoulish and (as a lawyer) are really a bad idea.
But this accident, based on the facts as I understand them, doesn’t seem like a particularly good candidate for blaming Tesla. This isn’t a scenario where the driver inadvertently exceeded the systems capabilities, like that guy in CA; it sure sounds like the operator of the car took multiple steps to defeat the Tesla systems that (should) prevent this, like...not sitting in the driver seat at all.
So I’ll co-sign your concern about these systems. In fact, I don’t trust any of them, but I especially don’t trust Tesla’s. This accident, though, seems like pure idiocy on the part of the driver/passenger.
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