Comment on Tesla drivers run Autopilot where it’s not intended — with deadly consequences
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 9 months agoIt’s insane that people are blaming this on Autopilot when there is a driver sitting behind the wheel who also missed a stop sign, blinking light, and five yellow warning signs while driving at 70MPH. You could physically do this with any other car that has cruise control and nobody would be blaming the car.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I haven’t seen anyone blaming the autopilot for situations like this
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Your above comment was blaming it. Why even bring Autopilot up otherwise?
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The above comment, which was a summary of the article, doesn’t blame autopilot. It brings up autopilot as being used by an inattentive driver outside autopilot’s intended use conditions. Acting like autopilot, it’s marketing, and it’s general population perception is an innocent bystander in this situation is, however, disingenuous. You don’t give a car to someone and say “it has airbags, it’s safe” and trust that they’ll actually be ok on the road with no further info, right? So why would you think releasing untested software in a product with overhyped marketing using unfamiliar terms^1 would just be ok?