Comment on Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions
dsemy@lemm.ee 1 year agoAt least AP presents itself (somewhat) as an autonomous system though… even the best GPS obviously still requires you to look at the road.
NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social 1 year ago
When you sit in the car, it really doesn't though. When you enable it, it clearly warns you about the dangers involved and to always pay attention. The radar versions even warned you about specific situations it would fail in and potentially cause a fatal accident. All cars that rely on radar have that issue and warn their users.
Anyone who's used it knows it clearly has problems, and honestly, it can be a little nerve racking getting used to using at first as well, because it does have problems and you need to learn them.
The majority of people causing accidents on it have simply grown accustomed to it. They know when it will usually fail, and then make poor choices. People are just people and make all sorts of bad choices.
That's not to say I don't think there's room for Tesla to improve on this, like using the in cabin camera to further help detect if someone is paying attention or not, but ultimately it falls on the driver to pay attention.
If you happen to be given a Tesla with AP already enabled on your profile, and you've only gone of what you heard in the media then sure maybe, but those aren't the people causing problems. And really, if you rent a Tesla, I really do hope it's all disabled by default so you have to turn it on and go through the setup.