Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by londons_explore on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:55AM
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The safe thing to do would be to pull over first, as you see the rain getting heavier, then adjust.
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Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by smaudet on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:23AM
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I can immediately think of several situations where that is not at all possible to do.
Construction, cliff roads, country roads, etc.
Tesla are unsafe death traps by design.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by concordDance on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:23AM
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> Tesla are unsafe death traps by design.
This is completely untrue by third party metrics (both governmental and not).
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by BanazirGalbasi on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:52AM
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They meet crash standards, yes. But the interior design of them encourages unsafe driving. Between putting almost everything inside a touch screen and pushing autopilot (which encourages drivers to pay attention less), they are creating more distractions from controlling their 2-ton metal boxes.
Drivers are licensed operators of heavy machinery that travels at high speed. Let's not encourage systems that turn us into more dangerous operators.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by concordDance on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:01PM
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If they were "death traps" the stats would have them as the most dangerous cars on the road rather than one of the safest (in terms of deaths per mile). The grandparent was speaking absolute nonsense.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:53PM
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A tank would be safes car, statistically - its just deadly to wveryone else.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by electrondood on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:44AM
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What you've just said is a description of the exact opposite of reality.
Teslas are the safest cars on the road, and not even by a little bit.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by nsxwolf on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:56PM
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Pulling over to adjust the wiper speed? Come on now.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by electrondood on Sunday May 07, 2023 @01:07PM
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Or use the "Turn on windshield wipers/increase wiper speed" voice command.
https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/support/voice-commands
If that's your safety criticism, that's more evidence for my point. Teslas are statistically safer than any other car by any measure.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by Chris2048 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:26AM
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So, what to do on a motorway?
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by nsxwolf on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:59AM
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I get the impression you’ve never driven in the rain.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by Gordonjcp on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:05AM
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Why wouldn't the safe thing be to reach out from the steering wheel with one of the fingers of your right hand, and move the little slider thing on the wiper switch to increase the wipe speed?
You know, like on my appallingly primitive 1998 Range Rover, or pretty much anything from the same era?
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by scarface74 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:38AM
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Yes because pulling over on a multi lane highway in the rain when you have poor visibility and then trying to merge into traffic is much safer.
Besides, what if you are on the road with no shoulders.
Re:The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature
by brokenmachine on Friday April 28, 2023 @12:43AM
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Shut up Elon. Your cars suck.