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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 71 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Of course it just keeps hitting harder when things are in the way.

Literally Tesla's response

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure these "engineers" were confused everytime they saw an elevator door not mercilessly crush people.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

This breakthrough technology could finally provide a way to teach people on the MTA not to hold the doors.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nope, but they probably know that an elevator doors and a car lid are two completely different thing with different use cases and security concerns.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They sure did not know about the "not crushing human limbs" part.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Obviously.

But let's face it: if the car lid would never close if something is in the way, some other dumb youtuber would have made a video about it and here there would be a discussion about how stupid are the engineers to not let the lid close even if a bag in slightly on on the way and the user know what they are doing.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the point of a safety feature. The car shouldn't, by itself, close the lid if something's in the way. It should allow the user to push it down, or disable it temporarily, to do so.

The point of a safety feature in any system is to prevent unexpected situation from having unexpected consequences, not to be a magic solution that accommodate for brainless people. In one direction, you can make the judgement call and force the thing down, in the other direction you lose a finger.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 0 points 6 months ago

You’re missing the point of a safety feature. The car shouldn’t, by itself, close the lid if something’s in the way. It should allow the user to push it down, or disable it temporarily, to do so.

I get the safety feature. The point is that here I am saying to the car to close the lid even if something is in the way. I made a conscious decision to do so, and more than one time, so I expect the car to do it. But I agree that it could have been designed in a better way.

The point of a safety feature in any system is to prevent unexpected situation from having unexpected consequences, not to be a magic solution that accommodate for brainless people. In one direction, you can make the judgement call and force the thing down, in the other direction you lose a finger.

Which is exactly what happened here. He made the judgement call to ignore the safety feature (and probably ignored how the feature works)

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They learnt about consent from Elon.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Probably “graduated college” the same way as Elon too

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It that point why not just have some blades slide out on the third try?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Why bother when the door itself is an effective guillotine?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The vehicles deny reality, same as their creator...