The Tesla Trolley

The obvious answer is to autopilot into ICE and Trump Regime officials. Elon pays the fine, the world is ridden of MAGATs, and one less Tesla on the road. D, D, D.
/s.

I'd imagine you are always responsible for what you do when you're driving, even if a system like autopilot is helping you drive.
- If you are in the drivers seat, you are responsible for anything the car does unless there was a provable mechanical failure.
- Especially cause autopilot disengages right before the accident so it's technically always your fault.
  
  Yup gotta read the fine print

Except the autopilot will modify its data that it was turned off right at the moment it hits people...
- Nah, it just disengages a fraction of a second before impact so they can claim "it wasn't engaged at the moment of impact, so not our responsibility."
  There were rumours about this for ages, but I honestly didn't fully buy it until I saw it in Mark Rober's vison vs lidar video and various other follow-ups to it.
  
  It not about responsibility, it's about marketing. At no point do they assume responsibility, like any level 2 system. It would look bad if it was engaged, but you are 100% legally liable for what the car does when on autopilot (or the so called "full self driving"). It's just a lane keeping assistant.
  If you trust your life (or the life of others) to a a lane keeping assistant you deserve to go to jail, be it Tesla, VW, or BYD.
  
  For fucking real??

Ha only if. Autopilot turns off right before a crash so that Tesla can claim it was off and blame it on the driver. Look it up.
- The driver is always at blame, even if it was on. They turn it off for marketing claims.
  PS: fuck elon
- I didn't know this, but I'm not shocked, or even a little bit surprised.
  
  Mark Rober had a video on autopilot of several cars and he used his Tesla. The car turned off the autopilot when he crashed through a styrofaom wall.
  
  But tesla doesn't claim you can ever not overlook the car, so if you didn't notice and stop it, it is your fault. Fuck elon and all that, but it is somewhat reasonable.
- Holy shit I did indeed look it up, and it's true. Dunno if it'll hold up but it's still shady as shit
  
  Most states apply liability to whoever is in the driver seat anyway. If you are operating the vehicle, even if you're not controlling it at that moment, you are expected to maintain safe operation.
  That's why the Uber self driving car that killed someone was considered the test driver's fault and left Uber mostly off the hook.
  Not sure how it works for the robo taxis, though.

In my country it's always your fault. And I'm very glad.
- Here in the US, even if the driver is found responsible it is often only a small fine ($500) and maybe a 30 day suspension for killing someone.
  
  What if you kill a CEO?

Autopilot will turn off a few milliseconds before impact either way

Tldr: Take the train and be safe.
Rant: In the EU, you are 35x more likely to die from a car crash, compared to a train crash. The union has created the so-called Vision Zero program, which is designed to reach zero driving deaths by some arbitrarily chosen date in the future. And of course it talks about autonomously driving cars. You know, crazy idea, but what if instead of we bet it all on some hypothetical magic Jesus technology that may or may not exist by the arbitrarily chosen date and instead focus on the real world solution that we already have? But well, the car industry investors would make less money, so I can answer that myself. :(
Edit: Also, Musk is a Nazi cunt who should die of cancer.
- Well, there is no train station at my house. Or Aldi. Or my kids Kindergarten. And I live Germany, where public transport is excellent on a global level (memes about Deutsche Bahn aside).
  Cars will be necessary for the foreseeable future. Let's make them as safe as possible while investing in public transport, they are not mutually exclusive.
  PS: fuck Elon.
- Speaking as a German: There are fewer train-related deaths because the trains don’t drive.
  
  Well, we can thank Mr. Schröder for that. "Der Genosse der Bosse"
- We have Vision Zero in the US, too. They lowered speed limits in a couple neighborhoods from 25mph to 20, and all the LED road signs show annual aggregated deaths from car crashes until the number is greater than zero, then someone wrings their hands and says "Welp, we did what we could, guess people just like dying" and then goes on vacation. (Source: me, I made up the spokesperson who gets scapegoated, but all the other stuff is observationally evident where I live)
- Too bad I live in hell country. Where there are no sidewalks or public transportation just roads and we have facist dipshits bought out by big car companies. I would love to take a train or a bus but that stuff doesn't exist here and never will until we re-educate and remake America from the ground up. America is just too far gone at this rate to even want these public transportation services at all or even bike-lanes. Cities would rather destroy themselves for big top stores anyway and highways thinking they are a good thing only to realize that will ensure they will cease to be alongside their local businesses. I'm sorry but I'm forced to walk on the road and nearly get run over legally speaking with zero repurcussions from the driver side because I shouldn't of been walking on the road anyway.
  
  I've never been in the USA. Is it really that bad? I've heard that the USA have basically eradicated their own culture, because they destroyed their city centres in favour of suburbs, which need to be subsidised constantly. And therefore, cities sprawl. Is that true?
- I think musk cunt should die of starvation.
  
  Have you seen his human-growth-hormone belly? It would take years, man.
- Retrofitting, in some parts of the world suburbs have already been built.
- Does every single post related to cars have to turn into "don't use cars lol"???
  
  It's kind of the natural result, because cars are good for:
  navigating a landscape designed to exclude anything but cars
  conspicuous consumption
  identity signaling
  And they're really bad for:
  people
  the environment
  transportation
  Do an honest evaluation, and "don't use cars" is the inevitable conclusion.
- I agree trains are generally safer but I'd like to know more about the data. Are those just base death chance statistics (e.g.: 100 people die from train accidents every year compared to 3500 from cars) or deaths/km travelled?
  
  The numbers are calculated from the average of the EU27 killed travelers per billion person kilometers.
  So in this case 2.5 perished by car, 0.07 perished by trains, (2.5/0.07~35.71).
  Source: https://www.allianz-pro-schiene.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/verkehrssicherheit/
  Critique of source: biased towards trains given their organisation's purpose.
  Edit: typo.

Unironically this is a perfect example of why AI is being used to choose targets to murder in the Palestinian Genocide or in cases like DOGE attacking the functioning of the U.S. government, also US healthcare company claims of denial or collusion of landlord software to raise rent.
The economic function of AI is to abdicate responsibility for your actions so you can make a bit more money while hurting people, and until the public becomes crystal clear on that we are under a wild amount of danger.
Just substitute in for Elon the vague idea of a company that will become a legal and ethical escape goat for brutal choices by individual humans.
- Which is why we need laws about human responsibility for decisions made by AI (or software in general).
  
  I did an internship at a bank way back, and my role involved a lot of processing of spreadsheets from different departments. I automated a heckton of that with Visual Basic, which my boss was okay with, but I was dismayed to learn that I wasn't saving anyone's time except my own, because after the internship was finished, all of the automation stuff would have to be deleted. The reason was because of a rule (I think a company policy rather than a law) that required that any code has to be the custody of someone, for accountability purposes — "accountability" in this case meaning "if we take unmaintained code for granted, then we may find an entire department's workflow crippled at some point in the future, with no-one knowing how it's meant to work".
  It's quite a different thing than what you're talking about, but in terms of the implementation, it doesn't seem too far off.
- It reminds me of how apparently firing squad executions used to have only some of the guns loaded with live guns, and the rest with blanks. This way, the executioners could do some moral gymnastics to convince themselves that they hadn't just killed a person
- The economic function of AI is to abdicate responsibility for your actions
  Cars already do that without AI. If someone driving a car kills you and they aren't drunk, they probably won't get in any trouble and the car manufacturers never face any penalty for 40,000 deaths and 2,000,000 injuries per year they cause in the USA alone.
  
  Yes, good point, there is a clear through line here
- Which is honestly just the end game of a practice that's been getting worse for decades. It's partly why stuff was outsourced. The more layers between us and the atrocities, the less humanity can focus on reacting to them.
  There's been a concerted effort to introduce as many possible layers as they can to divide people and break up communities in order to break humans ability to empathize (and then use that empathy to affect change).
- FYI: Scapegoat.
  
  Lol well, Escape Goat 1 & 2 were just too damn good at being tough as nails indie platformers and now the word is hopelessly Escape Goat not Scapegoat in my head I am afraid.

Made by someone who's able to THINK like a Tesla owner.
Brake pedal? Unthinkable
- Dude, that's paid premium
  
  Lol
- Coming soon to a Semi near you.
- Have you seen the brake test first Tesla's? It's not good

At best Tesla pays a fine, not Elon.
- Don't worry, DOGE will just fire the investigators before that happens.

Oh. A fine. How will Musk survive that financially?
- He won't be fine...

Wow. That’s a staggeringly apt update
- apt update
  Debian user?
  
  Ha, no, just verbose
  
  😂

Jump out of the car.
"I'm not driving, I'm travelling" 🤓
- Don't the Sovereign Citizens's say something like that? Weird people man...

Just let it happen we are all going to die anyway

Slam on the brakes?
- Cant Kobayashi maru the trolley problem. There is no choice but the choices presented.
  
  I like that everyone on this site watches Star Trek.
  
  Kobayashi Maru was supposed to be unwinnable too!
- Sure. The Tesla is doing 45 mph and the collision is 15 feet ahead. Your reaction speed + brakes will totally fix it, math checks out.

It's a feature, not a bug.
-Musk, probably.

Elon isn’t going to last much longer no matter what

In the US its still on you if you have the last clear chance to avoid an accident when you are in the drivers seat. Fun to pay for a billionaires mistakes.

Trick question. I'm asleep at the wheel

Attach 12 M67s to the underside of the turdsla, each having a sturdy steel cable welded to the pin. Retreat to a safe distance behind appropriate cover and pull cables using a forceful yank.