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A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 515 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (60 children)

Judkins said that after the finger test, a lead cybertruck engineer at Tesla said he did the video wrong.

The engineer told him the frunk increases in pressure every single time it closes and detects resistance, Judkins said. It's going to assume you want to close the frunk and maybe something like a bag is getting in the way, which would make it close harder.

Are you kidding me? You did the test wrong on a safety critical feature? No you dumbass engineer, you designed it wrong. Why in the holy fuck would you make a safety critical algorithm keep applying more pressure on subsequent attempts??? That's literally the opposite of what you do for safety.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (17 children)

I know I'm old school and all that, but why do people want to pay for automatically closing doors of any kind? Automatic opening of cargo spaces I get, if you have your bags full of hands or whatever, but once you put the stuff in there... Seem like such an incredibly unnecessary and costly feature, that also have a high chance of failing in the future. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because taking stuff out is like putting stuff in, only in the reverse order.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Except when the stuff is in, you have free hands to close doors and hatches

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think we're on two different wavelengths.

Put stuff in: Stand next to closed car with no free hands, could use automatically opening doors.

Take stuff out: Open car. Pick up stuff out of the car. Stand next to open car with no free hands, could use automatically closing doors.

[–] ReveredOxygen 1 points 5 months ago

In the case where you took everything out though, there's no bags for it to get stuck on. There's no need for it to slam itself

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