Re:Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misus...
by jacquesm on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:51AM
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> We regularly take long three hour drives to get to a scenic spot that I would never consider doing in another car.
There is an interesting implication here, a point that I've tried to make a couple of times but this anecdote does a better job of it. Automation of self driving will lead to much more driving than we have today because today the requirement is that someone needs to be willing to make the trip as well as the vehicle. With automated driving that requirement drops away so there will be many more trips that do not happen now. This will lead to more congestion and will to some extent undo the 'green' effects of the electric revolution.
> With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load.
But you've lost situational awareness and won't be able to recover it in time if the autopilot decides to call it a day due to the complexity of the situation. This has been studied countless times for airliner pilots and operators of rail vehicles.
There is an interesting implication here, a point that I've tried to make a couple of times but this anecdote does a better job of it. Automation of self driving will lead to much more driving than we have today because today the requirement is that someone needs to be willing to make the trip as well as the vehicle. With automated driving that requirement drops away so there will be many more trips that do not happen now. This will lead to more congestion and will to some extent undo the 'green' effects of the electric revolution.
> With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load.
But you've lost situational awareness and won't be able to recover it in time if the autopilot decides to call it a day due to the complexity of the situation. This has been studied countless times for airliner pilots and operators of rail vehicles.