Tesla Self-Driving needs to be not just safe, but idiot proof.

@wholemars Simplest solution - remove any possibility of the idiot influencing the vehicle in any way, shape, or form

@wholemars Tall order but yes.

@wholemars One speed profile for all. SMH we will not like it

@wholemars That’s harder than March of 9s

@wholemars Yeah this lady in the media would have been safer in a vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals.

@wholemars Yeah exactly. Safe is the baseline, but it really needs to be idiot-proof too. Roads are full of people pulling the dumbest moves every day and FSD has to just shrug it off. That's the real bar.

@wholemars I hear steering wheels and pedals are bad things

@wholemars No such thing. It only needs to be better than the average idiot.

Agreed. Though I can tell there was a significant update pushed in the last update I received to make it more idiot proof, and that's annoying for people like myself who can easily monitor what it's doing without locking your eyes straight ahead at all times no matter the circumstances. My car yelled at me and started the deactivation of FSD process as I was sitting at a red light last night not moving because I didnt nudge the steering wheel fast enough lmao that's just straight retarded. I will unsubscribe from FSD until unsupervised is here in late 2026/early 2027. The attention monitoring needs work, Tesla bros.

@wholemars Never underestimate the ability of an idiot.

@wholemars Ok. How about a solution because the depth and breadth of idiocy is much greater than our engineers intelligence right now.

@wholemars O'Dowd proof? I guess that means a gag and handcuffs.....

@wholemars Idiot proof is a fantasy. Nothing is idiot proof. We will only ever make it safer than humans by a lot.

@wholemars It needs idiot approval.

@wholemars That's a tough one... People can be pretty thick!

@wholemars So a disengagement should not be absolute but only enough that you can not crash?

@wholemars Good point, the nag needs to be at max as soon as FSD is turned off, if at high speed and nag fails, vehicle immediately slows down @aelluswamy @Tesla_AI

@wholemars That’s why you take out the steering wheel 🧠🤖

@wholemars I don't believe idiot proof is possible because the universe keeps producing bigger idiots (and puts them in positions of power).

@wholemars Idiot proof is impossible. Idiots are ingenious in their way of discovering new ways to fuck up.

@wholemars Only cybercab is idiot proof. As long as morons can disengage FSD, some will.

@wholemars Remove the steering wheel and pedals. Problem solved.

@wholemars absolutely so many idiots among us

@wholemars x.com/evan_boudreau/…

@wholemars 10x safer unfortunately is not enough to satiate the crowd.

@wholemars It’s an arms race. Make a safer car, the world makes a more determined idiot 🫤

@wholemars I represent that remark.

In the war of Public Relationa, Self-Driving suffers the disadvantage of being a single identity to an audience ignorant of statistical weighting. The emotional impact of absolute values aren’t corrected for miles driven. “Steve crashed four times” and “FSD crashed four times” carries the same impact to most people. Embarrassingly few people internalize the math “4 times out of 10,000,000 miles driven” vs “4 times in the last 20,000 miles.” They just feel Steve and FSD are equivalently bad drivers. Every mishap is multiplied by however million drivers FSD is competing against, rather than compared against the average, weighted for miles driven. It’s an uphill battle… but my money is on Tesla.

@wholemars 😂 you are going very very far into the march of nines. 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999^9999999999 There’s always a bigger idiot out there.

@wholemars I mean there’s people who ride in my tesla who can’t figure out how to open the door from the inside. despite myself placing “OPEN” stickers on the button itself that glow in the dark lol

@wholemars Unfortunately, nothing is ever idiot proof, because there is always a greater idiot.

@wholemars Only solution = More airbags to protect the idiots

@wholemars That's what CyberCab is for

@wholemars True that. Sadly, I’m surrounded by idiot drivers in Silicon Valley…