UPDATE: Driver who claimed his Tesla Autopilot sent him barreling into a grandmother's home has been charged after data shows he manually overrode the feature.
Michael Butler, 44, sent his Tesla 70 MPH into the home of Martha Ávila, 76, killing her as she was trying to put away groceries.
Butler claimed his autopilot malfunctioned, but Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s head of AI, found that he floored the accelerator pedal and overrode the self-driving feature.
“In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area... They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.”
Butler was charged with manslaughter and is being sued by the family of Ávila.
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Italian PM Meloni to Trump:
So, certain things deserve an immediate response.
Donald Trump's statements are completely fabricated. I am frankly appalled. I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way towards his allies; after all, it's not the first time it's happened.
I can only say it's a pity that he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders towards whom he instead proves to be much more accommodating.
But he must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg.
Blue Origin Shifts Focus to Human Moon Landings 🚀 Blue Origin has announced a temporary pause in New Shepard operations for at least the next two years as the company redirects resources toward advancing its human lunar exploration efforts. 🥶
$14 million “beautification” and just 3 days later it looks worse than ever because there was a reason we didn’t paint the reflecting pool dark colors like “American flag blue.” Mainly that it would raise the water temp and cause rapid algae growth.
After seeing her roll back to Rocket Park this afternoon, "Never Tell Me The Odds" appears to be in decent shape - and to reiterate what Chris said below, nothing obvious from the explosion at LC-36.
What's most interesting is the booster appearing in a sort of mid-refurbishment state with tape markings in tandem with the wear & tear on the thermal protection system and other hardware. Don't normally see this!
https://t.co/HMdRAAL8Kv
2 different purposes, plus total reuse ability. Starship can incorporate people at some point, nothing a fairing can do. Then there is the issue of tonnage to LEO, and cost per kg. Not even close !
Why did this post get people so mad? New Glenn 9x4’s fairing is huge compared to Starship currently.
Sure, V4 of Starship is planned but we have no idea what that would look like, nor how payloads other than Starlink would look and be deployed from it.
@sentdefender I normally dont do conspiricy theories but my spidy sense is tingling on this one. I'm thinking with the SpaceX IPO + Blue Orgins win for the moon landing would make this a high value target for Elon to commit foul play. Not saying he did. Just I wouldnt be surprised.
We had an anti- abortion advocate chain himself to the front door of the hospital. Since he only chained himself to one side of the door, we left home there until he got tired and went home!
Found another racist: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. Oh and he’s white, as indicated in his name. He’s a man and a Democrat. He’s been a senator since 2007.
He defends all white clubs in Rhode Island which he frequents. Mind you this is 2026. Hmmm…
Bill Gates: "6% of global emissions are cows who burp and fart methane to an extreme degree.
You can either fix the cows, or make beef without the cow."
Can we just fix Bill instead?
If you haven’t already, you should start seeing the effects of that convoy of tankers arriving to load up U.S. oil the next time you fill up at the gas station.
As I’ve said before, dramatically ramping up exports isn’t something average Americans should be cheering. It’s like watching a crowd of people slowly walking toward you in a single file line with knives in their hands, while you clap and celebrate as they get closer.
And this is just the beginning.
I CAN’T believe this 87-year-old is a sitting member of Congress, wielding real power over the economy and people’s lives.
This is who we’ve got representing us?” 🤦♂️
AOC is furious President Trump is building a White House Ballroom to protect future US administrations from violent radical leftists:
"He demolished the East Wing of the White House, a historic jewel of the American people...He also promised the American people that this was going to be built with private dollars...In fact, the White House long had facilities for hosting, which also included the East Wing of the White House, prior to them bulldozing the crown jewel of the American people. And so I don't believe in an era where they are jacking up prices on the American people, when they are gutting everyone's healthcare...that we should be choosing our precious little treasure that we have in this country to build an ornate castle."
What a whackjob 😂
@elonmusk Elon you want to make more people jobless with this your bullshit innovation. I am not even sure you have any plan for taxi drivers this is not a progress it’s a greed and self centred mindset.
Hakeem Jeffries says he has "no doubts" that he's "intellectually superior" to President Trump, and challenges Trump to a public debate.
"It's extraordinary to me that Donald Trump keeps recycling this 'low IQ' insult. This is from the dumbest President EVER to sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and there's not even a close second."
Is this guy serious?! 😂