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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by pfarnsworth on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:50AM (#22306501)
Sorry but using cruise control in heavy rain is just simply a bad idea. It's supposed to be used when conditions are ideal, not when they as bad as can be. That is human error, in my opinion.
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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by mistahenry on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:15AM (#22306910)
In my driver’s education course back in the early 2000s, they explicitly told us that Cruise Control can dangerously malfunction in rain and should only be used on dry roads.
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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:17AM (#22307879)
How is it any more idiotic than maintaining that speed manually?

I'm struggling to think of any combination of hardware/software that isn't asinine on first glance (e.g. feed the cruise control off only the rear wheel speed sensors on a FWD vehicle) where cruise control would be any different than a driver manually holding the same speed by putting their foot on the gas.

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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by isoskeles on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:01AM (#22309882)
I don’t think a normal human would try to maintain an unsafe speed going uphill in heavy rain.
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