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Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Honestly curious, what will your Kia do if you point it at a house and floor the accelerator from a few hundred meters away? I have no idea how my BYD would react and I'm not eager to test it. It has emergency braking, but I don't know how effective that actually is.

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[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

if you point it at a house and floor the accelerator from a few hundred meters away?

I don't know for sure and I can't think of a good way to test. It certainly wouldn't hit it when "driving itself" with smart cruise control or if I tried to drive into it from a few metres away.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Well yeah, but it seems likely in this case the accelerator was being floored, dunno for how long. So much as I hate to give tesla a pass, they're probably not really at fault here unless new info appears.