If you are worried about people’s safety then why don’t you stand in the back of a bar at closing and try to stop a few people in the mob of drunk people drunkenly stumbling into their cars? You would save more lives that way than protesting self driving. Do any of the Tesla detractors take any action about or even comment about the tens of thousands of deaths caused by people craning over their phones, doing their makeup or intoxication? No, because tesla alarmism is not a rational position and it is not based in objective assessment of public safety.

I’m so tired of the media and the mob taking these select issues out of context. The media plasters FSD accidents across every screen in the world, even when later it turns out the driver was drunk, but it doesn’t mention the zillion miles of uneventful riding. You see clips of FSD doing something weird, “diving toward pedestrians,” shooting straight to the top of reddit/HN (is there any distinction nowadays?) but videos of FSD doing amazing things, negotiating the Berkeley hills without intervention, never reach the front page.

If you showed a person from the 90s two hours of v10 FSD in various environments, mistakes and interventions and all, that person would say with astonishment “that car basically drives itself.” And anyone who denies that is being intellectually dishonest.