Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident
by ChuckMcM on Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:59PM
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Sadly I have to agree with you on the narrative angle. While I am very impressed with what Tesla has accomplished in their autopilot I find the careful construction and omissions in this follow up post to be done poorly.
They omit what speed and what lane the car was travelling in. They omit the time at which the car was no longer behaving in the way in which it had (when did it start heading for the crash barrier? At what point did the wheels closest to the barrier move over the line? etc)
They have previously mentioned that their cars have navigated this spot many times in the past (over 200 as I recall) did they note the number with and without the crash barrier intact? How many times was the car in the exit lane and how many times in the lane to the right of the exit lane? How many times have they navigated past it with a damaged crash barrier.
The driver had driven this route before, it was his commute to work. Had he driven it with this car on that route in autopilot before? Did it work then? How many times? How many seconds were there between when the driver's car was doing something right (in lane etc) and doing something wrong (straddling the lane). The response indicates there were 5 seconds of visibility coming up to the crash barrier, at what point was the autopilot on a collision course? All of those five seconds? or the last 500mS ?
Reading the Tesla response I felt I wasn't getting the whole story, and was getting a whole lot of deflection. That isn't the tone that inspires confidence in me. And that makes me sad because they have done much better in the past. I cannot help but speculate that this time they feel they might have been contributory at least and that a full disclosure would be used against them in a civil suit.
They omit what speed and what lane the car was travelling in. They omit the time at which the car was no longer behaving in the way in which it had (when did it start heading for the crash barrier? At what point did the wheels closest to the barrier move over the line? etc)
They have previously mentioned that their cars have navigated this spot many times in the past (over 200 as I recall) did they note the number with and without the crash barrier intact? How many times was the car in the exit lane and how many times in the lane to the right of the exit lane? How many times have they navigated past it with a damaged crash barrier.
The driver had driven this route before, it was his commute to work. Had he driven it with this car on that route in autopilot before? Did it work then? How many times? How many seconds were there between when the driver's car was doing something right (in lane etc) and doing something wrong (straddling the lane). The response indicates there were 5 seconds of visibility coming up to the crash barrier, at what point was the autopilot on a collision course? All of those five seconds? or the last 500mS ?
Reading the Tesla response I felt I wasn't getting the whole story, and was getting a whole lot of deflection. That isn't the tone that inspires confidence in me. And that makes me sad because they have done much better in the past. I cannot help but speculate that this time they feel they might have been contributory at least and that a full disclosure would be used against them in a civil suit.