Tesla's 'Autopilot' Will Make Mistakes. Humans Will Overreact

Re:Tesla's 'Autopilot' Will Make Mistakes. Humans Will Overr... by the8472 on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:30PM (#12027700)

> It's quite likely, now that the NHTSA is looking into this crash, that Tesla will have to do a recall and retrofit one. (Along with hands-on-wheel sensors.)

Will they? Considering that those are driver-assistance systems it's always the human in charge, no?

The driver would also have died if he had just enabled "dumb" cruise control and noticed the white trailer.

Of course more advanced automation systems should do better and tesla should improve, but from a technical perspective it's still just an assistance system.

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Re:Tesla's 'Autopilot' Will Make Mistakes. Humans Will Overr... by robbbbbbbbb on Sunday July 03, 2016 @06:08PM (#12027859)

Although I have no idea what the NHTSA will do, it's clear that people are treating Tesla's autopilot as more than a driver-assistance system.

Hopefully in the future Tesla will add some additional checks to make sure the driver is actually using it as an assistance system instead of an auto-pilot. And when their auto-pilot actually becomes an auto-pilot they can remove those checks.

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Re:Tesla's 'Autopilot' Will Make Mistakes. Humans Will Overr... by daveguy on Sunday July 03, 2016 @06:28PM (#12027923)

>And when their auto-pilot actually becomes an auto-pilot they can remove those checks.

And then they can call it autopilot again...

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla get slapped for marketing it as an autonomous driving system. Musk has publicly said their autopilot is twice as safe as a human driver. That is misleading at best considering it should never be used without a human driver.

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