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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by lallysingh on Friday April 06, 2018 @09:34AM (#16773070)
I don't know why people use this thing. The cars are nice, and justify their purchase on their own, without this autopilot feature. But I don't think you can do good autopilot without lidar.

  People shouldn't use it.
Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by edf13 on Friday April 06, 2018 @09:37AM (#16773089)
I really don't think the cars are that nice... this is a side from the main issue here but the build quality is poor and the design is bland - both internally and externally (That massive big iPad like screen - yuck!).
Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by raisedbyninjas on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:04PM (#16774292)
The big Youtuber that rebuilds salvage Teslas made the point that almost every Tesla owning Youtuber has a video showing their car getting hauled away on a tow-truck. One of the possible reasons that Tesla service dept. doesn't provide maintenance history on salvage cars is because the amount of service would reflect poorly. It doesn't seem uncommon for a model S with 80,000 miles to have several door handle replacements, at least one whole drive unit replacement, battery contactor replacement, an infotainment system replacement, in addition to all the recall/redesigned components that are replaced before failure. I still think Tesla's are quite nice, but a bullet-proof Honda they are not.