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(04-22-2021, 12:40 PM)northernblue link Wrote:Wasn’t one occupant in the back seat and the other in the passenger seat ?!
Yes that's what's been reported.
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(04-22-2021, 12:49 PM)northernblue link Wrote:So it beggars belief that the auto pilot wasn’t engaged...
Not really, they were Americans.
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What's the current wait list for a hybrid RAV4 EB, 2 years?
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(04-22-2021, 10:20 AM)capcom date Wrote:Autonomous tesla car runs straight into a tree, kills the two passengers and it took 120,000 litres of water to extinguish the battery flames.
Not great for vehicles that operate in a country like Aust.
Technically you can't extinguish lithium and other burning metals with water, they burn so hot they cause the H2O hydrogen and oxygen to disassociate and things get worse. Same for titanium and aluminium once they get to ignition temperature. Titanium is even worse because it reduces in nitrogen at a lower temperature than it reduces in oxygen. All they would have been doing is keeping the area shrouded/suppressed with spray to prevent noxious fumes until it burnt itself out, it's a bit stiff if you're a fish in a nearby creek!
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(04-22-2021, 12:53 PM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Not really, they were Americans.
As funny as that is, its hard to believe.
Even the most adventurous of technology adopters would ask the thing to move them from driveway to Street and round the block before doing anything else.
My assumption is that the technology failed or is glitchy because I am yet to experience any one piece of technology that works consistently and without any bugs.
My own car disengages cruise control of its own volition. Im setting that with buttons on my steering wheel at least, and its a 2008 Ford.
Remember the one where the throttle or cruise got stuck on 100 in the territory?
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There was the urban legend of the guy in the US who bought a new Winnebago. While on his first trip he set the cruise control and then left the driver seat to put the kettle on.......and the rest is, well, urban legend.
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(04-22-2021, 10:38 PM)capcom link Wrote:Took me back to this ....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimshaw_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
That was what the movie Class Action was based on, good old movie that.
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