Re:Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana
by laksjd on Thursday July 14, 2016 @02:32AM
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I don't think the issue is that Tesla's cars are dangerous. The issue people are raising is that they pretend, at least through implications, that their cars can safely drive for you.
Tesla is also not doing any kind of super special research into self driving cars. The system their cars use is (afaik) an OEM component (provided by MobileEye) that powers the driver assist features of many other brands, too.
Instead of actually improving the technology they have chosen to lower the safety parameters in order to make it seem like the system is more capable than it actually is.
That sounds like a succinct explanation for why we've been stuck in LEO since December 19, 1972.
We've got 7 billion+ humans on the surface of our planet. We lose about 1.8/s to various tragedies.
Most of which are of less import than helping automate something that's responsible for around 32,000 deaths in the US every year. Move fast, break people for a just cause, escape risk-averse sociotechnological local minima, and build a future where fewer people die.