Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure

Re:Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Au... by Zanni on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:03PM (#23386926)

More specifically, the problem is that public transportation is public and therefore can't or won't enforce the standards for ridership that any sane private company would--the violent, the antisocial, the mentally ill, the people who believe personal hygiene is optional. When my girlfriend of a few years ago was forced to take the bus to work regularly, she was harassed on a daily basis. Public availability doesn't have to mean no accountability, but somehow it devolves to that. And as long as that holds, folks who have the means will pay to avoid it.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Au... by dboreham on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:18AM (#23387713)

There's something wrong about this. I grew up in Scotland where we had plenty of smelly, drunk, drugged and violent people, but they'd be dragged off the train by the police.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Au... by ggreer on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:22AM (#23388543)

Police have been ordered by the city government to avoid enforcing certain laws. It basically means that homeless people can get away with theft and any nuisance. Also criminals are quickly released re-offend.

Here are some examples.

This guy has been arrested, charged, and released on his own recognizance five separate times. None of the cases have been closed yet: https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/123955010416546611...

This guy was arrested, charged, and released without bail several times before he hacked someone up with a machete: https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/122409012050613452...

This guy has been breaking into cars for over a year. He was caught multiple times and released on his own recognizance: https://twitter.com/SFPDTenderloin/status/121391498699874713...

Most of the bay area is like this and criminals know it. It's hard to describe just how bad property crime is here. Everyone I know has given up reporting when their bike is stolen or when their car has its windows smashed. They know the police won't do anything.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Au... by Zanni on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:10AM (#23399578)

Or this guy, in Seattle, charged three times for violent assaults and released because he was deemed not competent to stand trial before attempting to throw a woman off a 40-foot overpass into rush hour traffic: https://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/Charge-Man-att...

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Au... by josefx on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:53AM (#23388372)

> the problem is that public transportation is public and therefore can't or won't enforce the standards for ridership that any sane private company would

It is weird that most of the world seems to manage that just fine. At least in Germany they also have no issue with calling the police on misbehaving passengers.

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