Month: April 2022

Daily News 24 Apr 2022

“a return to dialogue”

“Sanctions will not help to achieve peace and foster dialogue, Argentinian Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero told Telam news agency on Saturday, adding that his nation will not place restrictions on Russia over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. “What Argentina seeks … Continue reading →

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April 24, 2022 at 09:06AM

Daily News 24 Apr 2022

Tesla on autopilot crashes into $3 million jet

Tesla Model 3 [image credit: Vauxford @ Wikipedia]

EVs can at least offer accidental entertainment, except to their victims of course. “There’s still plenty of idiots to go around”.
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A new Reddit clip shows a Tesla using the Smart Summon feature at a Cirrus event crash into a small private jet worth millions.

Autopilot didn’t work, says Futurism.

Slow Ride

Everybody knows better than to park next to the most expensive car in the lot. If you ding the door, you’re gonna have to pay.

That’s what makes it so incredulous one Tesla owner used the Smart Summon feature, which is supposed to let Teslas navigate parking lots on autopilot, but ended up crashing the driverless vehicle into a private jet worth millions.

A clip of the incident was posted to Reddit earlier this week and went viral, getting attention in dozens of media sites.

The 16-second clip shows a Tesla driving slowly toward, at, and then under the tail of a Vision Jet. The plane rotates almost completely around as the vehicle continues what may be the world’s slowest and only car-on-plane crash.

“I was at a Cirrus event and someone tried to summon their Tesla past a $3,500,000 Vision jet,” the original poster captioned the video, shown below.

Full article here.
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Daily Mail report here.

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April 24, 2022 at 08:57AM