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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by nilkn on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:59PM (#15094010)
> There's no way that the people heads-down in their cell phones are going to do this less once they realize they don't really need to pay attention.

The counter-argument is that they do this without Autopilot anyway. Given that they're already not paying attention, adding in Autopilot seems like a net gain.

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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by ghaff on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:08PM (#15094084)
Hence my comment that maybe accident rates improve anyway. Although it's hard to predict the delta between distracted driving/no automation and oblivious driving/imperfect automation. It's at least plausible that you have fewer but worse accidents when someone's watching a YouTube video and the car suddenly panics.
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