This means the vehicledoesnt come to a complete halt at a stop sign, instead moving slowly through it.
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The Assertive mode was accompanied with a warning that the vehicle may perform rolling stops.
The most important are:
What does this mean for Tesla?
This doesnt mean that owners of these vehicles will have to take any physical action.
Tesla will release another over-the-air update that will turn off the rolling stop feature, starting in early February.
insult a journalist for misreporting.
cue the moron journalists completely misreporting this story
it did not run any stop signs due to this issue.
There are many who pose as the latter while behaving like the former.
Indeed, there were no safety issues.
The car simply slowed to ~2 mph & continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.
But Musks nonchalant justification of the software raises deeper concerns.
I would be shocked.
And theres another issue here: it looks like the feature wasdesignedto break laws.
Because, you guessed it, performing a rolling stop in the US is, well, illegal.
And itd get you a nice fat ticket.
So why would Tesla enable a feature thats technically illegal?
Was it a programming oversight?
Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou
Ioanna is a writer at TNW.
With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.
