From my understanding the driver who died in the crash had previously reported problems in this area. I wonder if it was this specific crash site or not, I wonder why too if the person was aware of it why they didn't pay more attention during it - and to stop trusting it. I can understand how easy it is to be uncertain of something and have enough trust or rather a thread of hope that "nothing bad will happen to me."

I wonder too, if it's true that the person who died in the crash reported the area, what process Tesla followed and .. Any area reported with a problem IMHO should immediately start warning other drivers going in the same area until the issue is resolved, even disabling auto-pilot completely until Tesla's resolved it. I'm sure that would make people safer than the temporary inconveniences they would cause - I'd hope people would take that attitude anyway.

If the driver previously reported problems on a section of roadway and was then inattentive when driving that section of roadway, that’s a perfect setup for a reckless driving ticket. They knew a problem existed and recklessly ignored it. Autopilot does not excuse this in any way whatsoever.

An autopilot does not have to outperform a human driver in every imaginable situation as long as we make smart tradeoffs regarding what the machine can and cannot deal with and there are still significant advantages over humans in the managable common case.

There may not be a solution in sight for making robots deal with badly marked roads for example, but we might be able to just sidestep the problem with better road markings or more conservative handover-to-human protocols in areas with improperly marked roads.

Probably best not to think of Tesla as the standard bearer.

You can go back through Animats comments here and see criticism of the (apparent) approach Tesla is using, for months and months:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:Animats%20Tesla%20map&sort=...

And yet, someone had destroyed the crash barrier prior to this fatality. Locals report this happens often.

There will be bugs.

This is the beginning and I only find it interesting and not in any ways shocking.