Actually it’s absolutely realistic and fair. I don’t like Musk, or Tesla for that matter. But they make it pretty damn clear that you’re 100% responsible for the vehicle when using that feature. Anyone who assumes they don’t need to pay attention is a moron and should be held responsible. If a 747 autopilot system started telling the pilot to take control and they didn’t we wouldn’t blame the manufacturer, we’d blame the shitty pilot that didn’t do their job.
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daikiki@lemmy.world 10 months agoThe difference is that cruise control will maintain your speed, but ‘autopilot’ may avoid or slow down for obstacles. Maybe it avoids obstacles 90% of the time or 99% of the time. It apparently avoids obstacles enough that people can get lulled into a false sense of security, but once in a while it slams into the back of a stationary vehicle at highway speed.
It’s easy to say it’s the driver’s responsibility, and ultimately it is, of course, but in practice, a system that works almost all of the time but occasionally causally kills somebody is very dangerous indeed, and saying it’s all the driver’s fault isn’t really realistic or fair.
ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t wait to get smacked by a Tesla beta tester and have everyone debate whether the car or the driver is responsible for my innards being spread across 4 lanes. Progress!
daikiki@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If the driver gets lulled into a false sense of security by a convenience system like this and the automation fails, it’s one thing to blame the driver, and that may or may not be fair depending on how much trust you place in the average driver’s competence, but the (hypothetical) victim is still dead, and who we decide to blame won’t make one iota of difference to that.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe it avoids obstacles 90% of the time or 99% of the time.
99 is not enough!
99 means many many more dead people.
You need to go for 99.99%
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Modern cruise controls will match the speed of the car in front of you and stop if necessary and they keep the car in the current lane.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s actually not that hard to do, but Tesla is not willing to spend the necessary time and resources to solve the hard problems.