I keep telling yinz that autonomous vehicles will not survive First Contact with the American tort bar.
He should be working on flying cars. The current Tesla products and market have likely peaked for now altho its hard to tell it when I drive around here.. the roads are full of ‘em. And now all the new offerings will be out there.
Nothing like hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. You are the driver. Not a program or a switch like the 737MAX from a bad event.
Sounds like suicide by Tesla to me.
Tesla and Boeing need to compare notes.
I’ve driven a Toyota Camry with that kind of feature. It doesn’t make it a self driving car. It will sense cars in front of you and slow down, but it won’t reliably keep you in a lane. And on curves, fuggetaboutit. And if you are bombing along at 60 and come up to something standing still, you are gonna plow into it.
These are not self driving cars in any way, shape or form. They fake it.
Autopilot works in well in planes (insert 737 Max joke here) because you’re not traveling in close proximity of other vehicles making abrupt maneuvers. Maybe AI will someday get advanced enough so that it can eliminate fatalities, but expect a lot of lawsuits when and until that happens.
Should be renamed to AutoCrash.
“Uh, I don’t need to pay attention”.
Attention: spill on aisle 4...
Spill on aisle number 4....
Thank you.....
Ping.
I wonder if the driver put the car into autopilot mode to respond to a text message. Whatever he was doing, it was a major distraction.
The preliminary NTSB report is here:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY19FH008-preliminary.pdf
The truck pulled out in front of the Tesla. The Tesla had the right of way. Normally, people would place the blame on the truck.
The Tesla was going 68 in a 55 zone. The speed is set by the driver, not the autopilot.
The driver is supposed to keep his hands on the wheel and remain alert when the autopilot is on. The driver did not have his hands on the wheel.
I guess you can’t trust Autopilot systems!