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Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by ubercore on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:12AM (#36597274)
Have a link to that?
Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by therobotking on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:20AM (#36597354)
Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by donkeyd on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:32AM (#36597465)
> drivers might step on the accelerator for too long, increasing the risk of a crash

Wow, ok. So there's no actual issue with the accelerator pedal, it's just that people are too stupid to not correctly operate a vehicle and the need to be guarded from making mistakes by adding a warning to the software.

There's a lot of stuff objectively wrong in Teslas (see phantom braking, for example), but this isn't one of those things.

Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by Rygian on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:28AM (#36597424)
Direct quote from article: "drivers might step on the accelerator for too long"

How is that a "newly uncovered “gas” pedal issue"?

Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by King-Aaron on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:38AM (#36597522)
100% skill issue, not a technical issue.
Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by ubercore on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:36AM (#36598394)
That seems like nothing, but I _did_ just see this, which points more towards an actual issue with the cars: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/breaking-nhtsa-petition-s...
Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by martin8412 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:07AM (#36601470)
Yes, this is the serious issue. Not that people step on the wrong pedal.

The issue is with the inverter design. All Tesla cars on the roads use the 12V system as a voltage reference for the accelerator pedal position. If you turn the wheel while the car isn't not moving, it sources over 100 amps from the 12V system which causes a voltage drop to near 0V for hundreds of milliseconds. If the computer initiates a recalibration of the ADC during that time period, max throttle will be close to 0V until a later recalibration, which will immediately launch the car at very high speed. It also explains why Tesla says the pedal was pushed. It wasn't, but the software thought it was.

Re:Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad? by bbarnett on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:16AM (#36597319)
Wonder if Musk is then as safety, and build conscientious as Toyota, the "it must have been car mats!" throttle company.

But, some just love to trash Musk.