Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FSD stopped in tunnel

Re:Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FS... by omgwtfbyobbq on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:16AM (#34335952)

You'll only cause an accident if the faster traffic is driving too fast for the conditions and/or not maintaining sufficient distance from other vehicles, especially your vehicle.

You could ram the other vehicle. In that case no amount of safe/defensive driving would stop that.

But a safe/defensive driver will go as slow as you do if you merge in front of them.

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Re:Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FS... by mlyle on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @10:23AM (#34339421)

You're saying that you never exceed the speed of traffic in the lane next to you, by even a little bit?

If you exceed the traffic of the lane next to you, you will have low "following distance" to it, and a deceleration disadvantage. Plus, humans have reaction times.

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Re:Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FS... by omgwtfbyobbq on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:13PM (#34342099)

I'm saying that if I exceed the speed of another vehicle and that vehicle merges into my lane or I merge into theirs, and I hit their vehicle from behind, I'm at least partially at fault.

If their vehicle is fully in the lane, I'm almost certainly going to be completely at fault.

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Re:Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FS... by mlyle on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:35PM (#34343380)

I'm saying if you ever exceed the speed of a lane next to you, a vehicle in that lane can force you to crash.

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Re:Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using FS... by omgwtfbyobbq on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @10:07PM (#34348663)

Yup. Relative speed doesn't matter. A vehicle in the lane next to you can force you to crash.

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