Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoBuilding on what you said, I think that the sum is actually pretty significant if you think of it as being roughly $100 million per person, and then multiply by the number of people hurt by the supposed “Autopilot” who now have incentive to sue.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I thought these cases were all regarding incidents with the FSD package and not autopilot? The autopilot (in Tesla) is just TACC and lane-assist, the “advanced” autonomous features that actually steer the car is all in FSD.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Ah, I was not paying much attention to the distinction; my bad, then.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This case is about AP, but AP does steer the car. The car has TACC and Auto Steer, together it’s called Autopilot.
FSD is the one that can do lane changes, stop for stop lights/stop signs, and all the other necessary things like park and reverse.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The “auto steer” is what is called lane assistance in other brands, it just keeps you centered in the lane and will do so for mild turns without disengaging. It doesn’t take turns or anything resembling actual steering beyond that, it goes straight and takes mild bends in the road like all others.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you from Europe?
EU has some laws that cause AP to disengage beyond mild turns. It can take some pretty good turns outside EU, but not really sharp ones.