Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer
Better Offline
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On April 26 2024, the NHTSA, the government body responsible for keeping roads safe, found Tesla's Autopilot and Full-Self-Driving software created a "critical safety gap" with drivers, killing and injuring people in the process, in the very same week that Elon Musk fired most of Tesla's team behind their Supercharger electric vehicle charging moment. Ed Zitron brings on E.W. Niedermeyer, author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors, to explain exactly what the hell is going on.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.7 | Quarzo Media. |
| 0:10.5 | Wake up, everybody. |
| 0:11.7 | I've got a new podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | This is Better Offline and I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 0:31.6 | Better Offline. Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a damning report about Tesla's autopilot and its full self-driving systems, which the NHTSA referred to as not adequately ensuring that drivers maintain their |
| 0:39.3 | attention on the driving task. One second, though, to delineate between the systems, autopilot is more |
| 0:44.7 | like a sexy version of cruise control, keeping your car in lanes, changing lanes when you hit a thing, |
| 0:49.7 | hitting the indicator and following the car in front of you on the highway, very basic. |
| 0:55.5 | Full self-driving is when your car drives itself. It makes turns, you tell it where to go on the GPS and it goes through |
| 1:00.7 | intersections, follows lights, and a bunch of other things it appears to not really be capable of |
| 1:05.7 | doing, with the NHTSA saying that both autopilot and full self-driving created a trend of avoidable crashes |
| 1:11.7 | involving hazards that would have been visible to an attentive driver. |
| 1:15.8 | The report, which covers the period between January 2018 and August 2023, described a critical |
| 1:21.0 | safety gap, to quote CNBC's Laura Kolodny, in the autopilot system, which contributed to at least |
| 1:26.9 | 467 collisions, resulting in at least 13 |
| 1:30.2 | fatalities, and 49 injuries. |
| 1:34.9 | Musk has recently tried to convince investors that Tesla is now all in on AI and his flimsy |
| 1:39.8 | dreams of having a robotaxy company. |
| 1:42.3 | This somehow also resulted in Musk firing the majority of the team |
| 1:46.0 | behind the one Tesla product everybody likes, its supercharger network, |
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