• SirActionSack@aussie.zone
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    11 hours ago

    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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      7 hours ago

      And what if you were doing 70mph for a few hundred meters before the house?

      You’d be going right into that house. No car will stop that.

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      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.