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Re:Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach ... by wpietri on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @09:24PM (#17184264)
Yes. There is zero chance I'd use a system like this. Regular freeway driving is already boring enough that I worry about losing focus. (I supplement with things like caffeine and audiobooks.)

There's some threshold of interventions/minute that I think humans just aren't very good at. Which is why there are systems like Threat Image Projection, which turns baggage scanning into what is effectively a video game: https://www.rapiscansystems.com/en/products/rapiscan-threat-...

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Re:Tesla in autopilot mode crashes into parked Laguna Beach ... by vsl on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:04AM (#17194502)
Try it before making such sure if yourself statements.

In my experience it’s LESS boring to drive with autopilot and I pay MORE attention to the actually important, potentially dangerous, things like what’s coming up (you’re actively aware of longer stretch forward, which also means you know you’re coming up to a stretch that autopilot won’t be able to handle well in advance and have plenty of time to disengage) and the cars around it (not watching lanes closely frees you to give all your attention to cars around you).

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