Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot

Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by mettamage on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:02AM (#22306252)

> If you take your hands off the wheel and look at your phone for 6 seconds in any other car you’re going to have a bad time.

Which is why you don't do it in any other car. I don't know much about autopilot, but because we as humans don't know when it can go wrong, it's easier to get it into situations it wasn't designed for. This is not true for the 6 seconds any other car scenario as we will be predicting what the steering wheel and traffic in front of us might do.

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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by crca on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:09AM (#22306291)

Very true. Tesla has done a lot to try and make it clear to drivers that they must remain vigilant - in this particular case it sounds like the driver ignored several auditory tactile warnings to resume control of the vehicle, in addition to the standard warnings when Autopilot is activated. Short of changing the name I think they’ve done everything they can to manage expectations for Autopilot once you’re in the car, but humans don’t always work like that.

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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by riffraff on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:33AM (#22306428)

I do think changing the name would be the responsible thing to do.

If you call something a knife you can't 100% blame the customers if they try to use it to cut stuff, even if you say "Knife™ should not be used for cutting"

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