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Six months after Elon Musk raised the eyebrows of sane people everywhere by announcing his Boring Co. would sell flamethrowers for $500 a pop, the first 1,000 deliveries were made Saturday for customers who showed up at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.
The flamethrowers went like, well, flaming hotcakes when they went on sale in late January, selling out in just four days. In all, 20,000 were sold, raising about $10 million in revenue for Musk's tunnel-boring startup. The devices, technically called "Not a Flamethrower" to skirt federal shipping regulations, shoot a two-foot flame.
[...] Despite concerns about the wisdom of allowing personal flamethrowers in wildfire-prone California, state legislators last month shelved legislation that would have required them to come with a safety warning.
[...] 2017 was California's most destructive wildfire season ever, with more than 9,000 fires burning acreage the size of Delaware and killing at least 46 people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:58PM
Because other brands don't advertise as having autopilot. Teslas no longer have all the needed sensors because Musk is arrogant enough to not think they're needed.
Also whataboutism isn't helpful. We know that Teslas aren't anywhere near good enough at self driving, they fail to handle Easy situations like vehicles parked in the side of the road, highway exits and motorcycles in the lane ahead.
This is basic stuff that humans generally get right. The situations that lead to most deaths the cars can't handle anyways.