Scenario: Undocumented immigrant family in Minneapolis get in their Tesla car to go to work, school or shopping. The doors lock and are disabled via software OTA. Because they are not mechanical, the family can’t open the doors. They try to roll down a window, but that too is software controlled. The buttons do nothing. They are trapped.
The car then disables the steering colums via OTA software so the wheel goes limp. It is a drive by wire steering with no mechanical, rack and pinion physical link for the driver to control.
The cars autodrive engages and sends the trapped family to an ICE detention facility.
Is there any design feature stopping this from from hapening today?
Not the person you originally replied to, but you’re toeing the line of conspiracy nut. It sounds like it comes from a general lack of knowledge on a subject you have had no need to look into. Which is perfectly fine. But it’s very far from reality. I have a tesla and the scenario of locking me in and dropping me off at an ICE center is impossible. I have an older one that lacks full self driving hardware so there’s no computer code that could execute most of what you described. Now this comes from my direct knowledge of having owned one. This might have been more appropriate for a “nostupidquestions” style community.
Good for you. And for everybody else? Anecdote does not equal evidence.
Your ignorance does not equal reality. What you quoted wasn’t an anecdote. It’s a fact. As I said above, you not knowing that fact is perfectly fine. Getting snippy with me trying to provide some knowledge on the subject is just weird.
It’s fine to not address the question asked about all the cars that do have auto drive and whine about your one irrelevant fact. Just don’t be under the impression you are contributing to the conversation, for or against in any meaningful way. Calling someone ignorant is just bad faith discussion.
I did address the question in a parent comment. This chain is responding to someone else calling you a conspiracy theorist. The only one whining is you. As I mentioned before it’s perfectly alright to not have that knowledge if you’ve never had need of it. As someone with the knowledge I tried to elaborate for your benefit. You chose to embrace your ignorance and push on with whining. You have very little understanding of what “auto drive” actually is. Again, that shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of. Getting all pissy when someone tries to provide that knowledge is exactly what I’d expect from the type of idiots who would support the situation in your initial post. Be better than them.
Bad faith insults and put downs, while providing no insight into the question asked or discussion being had, is something to be ashamed of. I’d normally say ad hominems are beneath you, but you have proven that false repeatedly.
You have provided no knowledge.
Did you even check my other comment that explicitly answered your question? Cause it explicitly answers your question.
I got my posters mixed up. You did provide good faith discussion. I’ll edit my above post. Mi scusi.