Tim Dettman retweeted
If you missed this yesterday, Tesla has now dropped Forward Collision Warnings from its Safety Score and made other improvements in Safety Score version 2.2
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Tim Dettman retweeted
Elon, please consider how Tesla Insurance is currently financially incentivizing us to NOT drive with FSD on (at times, which we cannot control):
If I drive most of my miles on FSD but then I drive manually for 5 seconds and get a (false) Forward Collision Warning, that will drop my safety score by, say, 10-15 points. The only way to improve that score now is to put in a ton of manual driving, since FSD miles don't count in that bucket anymore. The financial hit is a strong motivating factor, then, to drive less safely (without FSD on). Further, it artificially reduces Tesla's metric for fleet miles driven on FSD.
False Forward Collision Warnings are real and constant. My wife and I average 3 per month despite trying desperately not to get them. Weaving through trash cans on a residential street is a good way to get them, for example.
A FCW that isn't followed by either a rapid deceleration (hard braking) or swerving (aggressive turning) is a false Forward Collision Warning. That is, if I'm about to hit something I didn't notice then I will react accordingly. If I don't react at all then the warning was wrong. So do we even need FCWs for Safety Score at all? Seems like the other metrics would suffice.
At the very least, these failures of the system--which are costing us real money--should be appealable. I don't mind taking the hit when FCWs are real and they're my fault, but I do mind when they're not. It's very frustrating to be financially penalized for something I didn't deserve.
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MY CAR THINKS I'M GOING TO HIT PARKED CARS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AS I DRIVE BY THEM!
Normally that wouldn't be a big deal, but with Tasks Insurance it makes my rate go up.
Is anyone else experience a ton of false forward collision warnings? I seriously wonder if anyone at Tesla actually uses their insurance and has to deal with it. I have to finally look for another option because it's cost me hundreds of dollars since I first got it.
@elonmusk you really got to get someone to fix this.
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Returning from an experimental ~2 week detox from the internet. Main takeaway is that I didn't realize how unsettled the mind can get when over-stimulating on problems/information (like a stirred liquid), and ~2 weeks is enough to settle into a lot more zen state.
I'm struck by how an over-stimulated brain automatically keeps bubbling up problems into consciousness, creating a state of persistent anxiety and nervousness. After some time, in the settled state, this activity just... stops. You can sit down and your brain doesn't immediately go into some kind of problem solving overdrive, it just stays silent. Nothing happens.
I'm sure this could read a bit duh to many, but I haven't been to this subset of "brain dynamics" state space in I think a very long time and it is comforting to know that 1) it exists, and 2) you can visit, if you like, but the journey there takes a few weeks.
Anyway, where were we :D
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE (This isn’t directed at 1 person)
You don’t have to justify your vehicle purchase by shitting all over other cars/trucks. It’s obnoxious, and makes you look like a fool. Just enjoy your ride and stop living to shit on the other every chance you get.
You look like the people who say the iPhone is garbage…like come on…get real. You don’t have to like it but when you say it’s crap, you lose all credibility.
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It will take at least a decade before a majority of cars are self-driving, but this is a legitimate concern in that time horizon.
Of more immediate concern is that it is already possible to severely ostracize someone simply by freezing their credit cards and bank account, as happened, for example, in Canada with the trucker protest.
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Here’s a map of locations where Tesla has totally hands-free ADAS.
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Teachers buy these bags of 100 plastic pennies for $12 on Amazon 🤦🏻♂️
Never send your kid to public school
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I'm having real issues with this one. We have been hearing Elon hammering and shaming OpenAI about its move to for-profit for months when he, in fact, agreed that a for-profit move was the way to go – though only if he was in control either directly through a new entity or through Tesla.
Therefore, Elon's logic is not that OpenAI's for-profit move is bad like he has been claiming on X. It's this:
OpenAI + Microsoft = Bad
OpenAI + Elon/Tesla = Good
Come on. That's hypocrisy. To be honest, this should have been obvious to everyone as soon as he filed to create xAI, which is not a non-profit.
It's as simple as Elon using X to bash a competitor, which is what he mainly does on this platform these days.
The level of hypocrisy of something like that is making me rethink my views of Elon. My views have already changed in the last few years, but I thought that was because Elon changed a lot during that time. I felt like his feedback loop was broken by sycophants and yes men.
I still think that this is partly to blame but now I also think I missed something. This hypocrisy and nastiness might have always been around. He was always in it for himself. It was just harder to detect as his interests were aligned with the greater good: Tesla's mission to accelerate the advent of renewable energy and SpaceX's multiplanatery goals.
Now that he is delving into social media and politics and assigning a ridiculous goal of "savior of free speech" to X, as if free speech lives and dies on Twitter, the discrepancies are shining a light on his motives.
Elon is in it for Elon. His vision is just so big that sometimes it aligns with the greater good.
Elon Musk tried to merge Tesla and OpenAI, emails reveal electrek.co/2024/03/06/elon-… by @fredlambert
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To anyone who drives a @Tesla, I hope that you never have issues with your vehicle or need anything from Tesla Insurance.
It is absolutely DISGUSTING how terrible of an experience it has been.
My car is at a Total Loss and I cannot get in contact with my adjuster, anyone from Tesla, or Tesla Insurance. Hell, even the other insurance company can't get anyone on the phone.
After this experience, I personally have decided not to get another Tesla.
Car is amazing. The service is garbage. Really saddened by the entire experience.
I would honestly bet money that I have a better chance of hearing from @elonmusk than my adjuster.
#Tesla
