Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on the 405

Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by rohit2412 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @12:41AM (#20883882)

Or you could have only the automatic emergency braking in a vehicle, and not autosteer.

Stop acting like it's all or nothing. The technology behind autopilot is being touted as driverless/self-driving, but it can do passive accident avoidance. That should be the benchmark to compare too.

In this particular case, humans get distracted and get in an accident. Autopilot is dumb as shit and gets in an accident. But a human with an emergency braking system is smart and doesn't get in an accident on the account of driver distraction.

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Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by greglindahl on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:32AM (#20884103)

There are accidents caused by cruise control.

That's your Level 1 example. Yet Level 1 systems are not banned.

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Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by rohit2412 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @07:39AM (#20885683)

I didn't recommend banning. But to stop saying "it's safer than an average driver".

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