Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims

Re:Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe t... by CSSer on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:27PM (#30184979)

I have a car with adaptive cruise control and lane assist, and most of my morning commute (on days when I go into the office) is driven on the highway. Most of the time I don't turn it on because I'm in a self-perceived hurry to get to work, so I forget.

You know what would be really nice? Something that detects when it's safe and reasonable to suggest turning on adaptive cruise control so I use it more. Maybe something like detecting I've driven a few miles at a consistent rate of speed above a certain threshold.

The hard parts are definitely the problem, but there are lots of easy wins left on the table too.

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Re:Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe t... by oblio on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:55PM (#30185346)

Isn't it just 1 button on the steering wheel to turn it on?

I definitely hope your car doesn't put it in some hidden menus on the central screen.

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Re:Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe t... by Melatonic on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:46PM (#30185212)

I would personally hate for that to be on but I can see your point. Maybe a simple hardware switch for on / off and adaptive cruise control turns on once you are over 65mph for more than 1 minute and will only adapt +-15mph total?

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Re:Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe t... by infogulch on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:33PM (#30188239)

GP doesn't suggest having the car turn on cruise control on its own (nightmare!), but instead to remind the driver that this may be a good opportunity to switch it on themselves.

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Re:Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe t... by kwhitefoot on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:08AM (#30192549)

My 2015 Tesla S 70D (AP1.5) does just this for Autosteer by adding an icon in the instrument cluster to say that the car thinks it could do it. I wish it had an optional chime for it though as I really don't want to spend much time looking at the instrument cluster.

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Re:Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe t... by elif on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:59PM (#30186882)

i am thankful to turn autopilot on as soon as i reach a highway entry ramp. Even if i'm in no rush and fully capable, i want the assistance merging onto the highway. I don't want to constantly look over my shoulder for a window to get into the fast lane, I want one selected when it becomes available.

The hard parts are the whole point of autonomy.. the parts so hard that humans still fuck up and kill people. that's the ideal of autonomy imo and short of that its missing the point.

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