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Re:Tesla investigation deepens after more than a dozen US ‘A... by dekhn on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:25PM (#31687743)
My most recent car has adaptive cruise control (tries to keep a speed, and break/resume if it can't). And it also has some lane detector that pushes the car gently back into the lane if you don't apply pressure. I used it for about 10 minutes before I had to prevent it from making a very serious accident. I would never compare that to Autopilot, which can go many hours before making a very serious accident.
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Re:Tesla investigation deepens after more than a dozen US ‘A... by alphabettsy on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:05PM (#31688088)
> Autopilot, which can go many hours before making a very serious accident.

Does it concern you that it might provide a false sense of security?

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Re:Tesla investigation deepens after more than a dozen US ‘A... by dekhn on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:22PM (#31688224)
Yes- that's my point. It took me ten minutes to realize my car's technology is unsafe, but from what I can tell, lots of people used FSD Beta enough to consider it reliable enough after a few hours of watching it work more or less OK on a freeway to completely disengage from driving.
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Re:Tesla investigation deepens after more than a dozen US ‘A... by kaba0 on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:56AM (#31691286)
It is easy to be “reliable” on a motorway in clear conditions. Yet they manage to hit a goddamn concrete block head on, or steer into the wrong lane.

Let’s say that people are not good at determining a black-box system’s reliability (as it is hard enough to do so with even statistics and hard data)

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