> half of them passive aggressively blink their headlights at me and play the throbbing anus animation on the dashboards

Alright man. I guess I'm not hip. What the hell are you talking about here? The Tesla drivers don't like your car and they have some sort of feature that moons you? I'm so confused.

Tesla's "Sentry Mode" feature records motion around the car, which is fine.

It can also be configured to blink the lights and display a warning on the big central screen that you're being recorded.

Given that someone sitting in their car and trying to bother passerby by blinking their lights is hilariously antisocial, I'm just counting down the days until we all decide it's ok to mask up and throw rocks through the windows of Teslas that are configured to do it autonomously.

Seriously, they do that? Which lunatic came up with that idea?

I think Elon asked it to be done after a slew of Tesla's got keyed/vandalized by people who hate EV's. It's gotten a few people arrested

https://futurism.com/tesla-sentry-mode-caught-vandal-model-3

> If the threat escalates to break-in level, the vehicle sounds an alarm and begins blasting music

Thanks. Well, on paper this sounds a lot more reasonable than what the parent described, but what they might be experiencing might simply be the difference between marketing speak and the reality of AI systems where the cost of false positives is practically entirely externalized, whereas anger about false negatives gets fed back right to the devs.

Edit: I saw some more reports, this does look like disgusting behavior that Tesla are trying to combat here. Just sad that the solution always seems to be more surveillance.

Before I got to the end of your post I was thinking about how that makes me want to take a bat to the windshield of a car - oh, you're recording me? Watch how much the police care when you try to show them; I doubt the mask would matter. Not my best instinct, but man that sounds agitating.

People who buy and drive Teslas think they are a gift to humanity, because they are "saving the planet". They glibbly ignore the amount of fossil fuels that were consumed in order to produce their shining homage to their specialness and of course their lord, Elon Musk, on the pedestal.

Come on. I’m not an electric car driver, but it’s obvious that centralising the emissions is a necessary step towards containing or reducing them.

And producing them now uses fossil fuels, but given critical mass of electric infrastructure and economy of scale for batteries then there will be a tipping point where the guy who drives the electric mining truck gets to work via his electric car.

Without any progress in these directions we will always have emissions.