Re:Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about ...
by perl4ever on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:16PM
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"It should be called something like Driver Assist Plus etc."
It seems to me that a feature which randomly veers into objects is not in fact a form of assistance, but a hindrance which makes driving more difficult than baseline.
It's been said before, I'm sure, but telling people to keep their hands on the wheel doesn't solve the problem of determining when to take over or resist the algorithm, since you don't know what it will do next and the time between normal driving and disaster is generally very small. A crash could be caused by the combination of actions, just like when two people both try to avoid each other in a hall, but collide anyway.
It seems to me that a feature which randomly veers into objects is not in fact a form of assistance, but a hindrance which makes driving more difficult than baseline.
It's been said before, I'm sure, but telling people to keep their hands on the wheel doesn't solve the problem of determining when to take over or resist the algorithm, since you don't know what it will do next and the time between normal driving and disaster is generally very small. A crash could be caused by the combination of actions, just like when two people both try to avoid each other in a hall, but collide anyway.