Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
by dpark on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:59PM
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A swimming pool in your backyard is an inherent danger. That doesn't mean anyone will be injured or killed, but a deep body of water with sheer walls is inherently dangerous.
It would nonetheless also be accurate to describe it as a possible danger, because the danger only manifests in certain circumstances.
> So what I mean is, the autopilot could turn out to be safer than manual, in my mind, so how is it "inherently" dangerous.
That could well be the case but I don't think it eliminates the inherent danger. Maybe it's less dangerous, but cars on the road are just kind of dangerous in general.
I think it's also very generous to assume that the early auto pilot car systems we have today are necessarily safer than human drivers. Emergency braking is almost certainly a net gain. Self driving might be or might not be. A self driving add-on cooked up by geohot? I'm doubtful it's yet gone through the kind of engineering rigor we'd expect of a system like this.
It would nonetheless also be accurate to describe it as a possible danger, because the danger only manifests in certain circumstances.
> So what I mean is, the autopilot could turn out to be safer than manual, in my mind, so how is it "inherently" dangerous.
That could well be the case but I don't think it eliminates the inherent danger. Maybe it's less dangerous, but cars on the road are just kind of dangerous in general.
I think it's also very generous to assume that the early auto pilot car systems we have today are necessarily safer than human drivers. Emergency braking is almost certainly a net gain. Self driving might be or might not be. A self driving add-on cooked up by geohot? I'm doubtful it's yet gone through the kind of engineering rigor we'd expect of a system like this.