Although anyone can be hit at any time, the distribution of human crashes is not purely random. People who drive compromised, for example, are way overrepresented in those events.
So, theoretically, the tech could get to a point with a lower than expected crash rate for humans generally, but still increase your personal crash likelihood.
Humans don't have forward facing radar nor 360 degree always active vision, so in some cases, cars can see hazards that even a perfect human driver cannot.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11803406/apple-engineer-killed-in-...
It's simple plausible deniability for Tesla and the fanboys. Good enough to keep them off the hook, legally.
To this day in 2021, many people still don't wear seat belts. Even though that's a solved problem. Some people will do stupid things. It's human nature.
There's no "impression" being given. Like I mentioned. There will always be a small fraction of irresponsible humans that will do dumb things. No amount of engineering can fix that.
Case in point is this video: https://youtu.be/VS5zQKXHdpM?t=88 Her mom is even helping this kid film this stupid act just for clout and views.
Tesla owners grilled him and said what he's doing is dangerous and irresponsible. He then deleted them all and turned off commenting. But people like to demonize Tesla owners. Which I find bizarre.
"FSD" is creating a 3d-model of the environment based on the camera image. But so far it is only active outside of highways. This should be much better at avoiding static obstacles. In any case, they are different systems so experiences with one cannot always be transferred to the other.
Is is confirmed that this Tesla was using self-driving?
- autopilot was not engaged, only cruise control
- the anti-collision applied brakes but not soon enough
- the driver walked away without a scratch
Nobody other than pilots, engineers or enthusiasts knows the subtleties of how aircraft autopilot systems work.
Every other person on this planet knows it to mean "fly the plane by itself". And would expect a Tesla car to "drive by itself".
> automatic driving from highway on-ramp to off-ramp including interchanges and overtaking slower cars
And while it does all of this very well right now, there still is that piece of text at the bottom:
> The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.
Honestly Tesla is doing the bare minimum here to have plausible deniability, but the text at the bottom really should be the same size as the text above it.
There are some spectacular failures that are very scary because the car does something that a person would never do, unless unconscious, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfmAG4dk-rU
You don't hear much about it probably because Tesla fanboys are plenty and rabid, so people avoid talking about it online.
The defence is usually stats about human drivers crashing more often and it makes sense until you dive deeper into the numbers because these stats are usually oranges v.s. Apples. It feels like they have some playbook with statistics to slap when someone says something negative. If that doesn't cut, they say that the victim should have followed the manual that says "your attention should always be on the road" then proceed posting a video about how thanks to the latest update they can sleep drive to work and attach a banana to the driving wheel to disable the attention safeguards.
If someone asks how is this an autopilot, there are usually two ways to handle it:
1) Autopilot is just a brand name, the self driving software is in beta, so the victim should pay attention all the times.
2) Autopilot is like on the planes, so only fools think that it is autonomous, therefore it was working as intended but they should have been using it like an airline autopilot. Crash due to user error.
I'm actually a fan of Musk and Tesla but I feel like the community engagement is very unhealthy and lacks scrutiny due to the "online army" of his.