'The family of the victim has since sued the alleged driver.'
Sorry, but this is getting ridiculous. You can't be accused of driving. It's not 'alleged.'
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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It is though. Yes there was a driver, yes they maybe the driver but in a court you have to prove they were the driver. Yeah it might be as easy as "they were in driver seat of the accident scene". But let's say evidence is only they were seen on a traffic camera 15 minute earlier, well they could of swapped seats or they could of been dropped off somewhere. You nor I don't know the answers to these questions and we shouldn't speculate, it should be proven in court.
I don’t trust anything that makes Tesla look innocent. This administration is too full of fucking shit and bending over backwards too far to tongue musks asshole already I wouldn’t be the least bit shocked to hear that NTSB is fully fucking compromised and corrupt as fuck.
I'm going to frame this comment and submit it to this article:
The guy literally had a google history asking how to make his Tesla go faster
Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
So not actually FULL anything and Tesla should be held accountable for creating safety issues due to false advertising.
The driver is to blame for their actions, but not the only one to blame.
Working Pedals (mostly)
Attached steering wheel (kind of)
the driver of a Tesla who crashed into a house in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding the company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software.
Yes the naming convention is dumb but it wasn't at fault here.
Shouldn't the so-called smart technology pick up on the fact that you are driving full speed into a house? Is that not an easy error to avoid?
I mean, I think the reasons that automated systems should allow for overrides by human operators should be pretty apparent.
With how all cars are connected these days, we could easily throttle them using GPS data depending on the road you're on. I don't really get why cars can even go so fast in general, max should be twenty over the highway limit.
Nobody really wants that though I'm guessing.
Makes sense. It's not uncommon for people who aren't paying attention to accidentally slam on the gas instead of the brake when they see they're about to crash. Almost certainly what happened here.
Agreed, I don't think people who haven't experienced this can really understand it. I was accelerating into an intersection about to get hit by cross-traffic and when I saw what was inevitably going to happen my body just went rigid, and one of my feet was firmly on the accelerator. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) my car was a manual, and the other foot was firmly on the clutch, because I think I had just started or intended to change gears, so my car just drifted slowly into the intersection while roaring loudly at the rev limiter, and I only got clipped. But if my left foot had not been on the clutch, it probably would've been a much worse accident. There was no time for anything resembling a conscious thought. My entire body was instantly reacting, I suppose to brace itself for impact, it was very primal and instinctive. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
How can one trust the date from the car without an audit into the software/hardware running at the time?
How do you know this wasn't done?
Because why would Tesla ever do that
It's really strange that search results are becoming so common in articles like this. I feel search results can only be used to manipulate the perception around a situation, and rarely prove anything. Guy owns a car, guy googled said car. Normal people would type something like "can I change how my self driving reacts?" "Can I speed up the acceleration for self driving?"
Who says, "FSD to Timid" unless they are writing a shit article or being linked there by an article that was telling people about such.
The guy was very much likely to be an idiot, but if those search results frame him in any way I feel I'd be framed for hundreds of crimes. Government: are you building a nuclear bomb? If not why were you looking into the processes on how to slow the reactions and how they have changed over the years?
Also how does that relate to your searches about Palestine, Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, S.A., U.A.E., various terrorist attacks you have googled over the years? Are you a terrorist!
Lol, nah man... It's the internet... Sometimes we just search things because of interests or something someone said and want to know more.
For what it’s worth, I’ve always aimed to write my searches in as few words as possible to avoid bringing results from other unrelated topics into it. Most of my searches read like a caveman and often don’t show much relation to one another, but I get the results I’m looking for. More reinforcement of your point than anything that search history is almost impossible to determine the motivation behind.
Drunk, speed happy, suicidal, or something else?
Tesla, enough said