Re:Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less...
by mwint on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:46AM
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On the contrary, I’d challenge anyone to find a non-contrived example of a crash that is unavoidable with 10 seconds of warning. Driving off a 1600 foot cliff does not count.
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Re:Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less...
by jepler on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:06AM
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Your car has gone the wrong way down an express lane some distance, and deactivated when a semi trailer traveling 75mph in the opposite direction is detected. There is no shoulder, and it's stopping distance plus yours is greater than the remaining distance between you (.1 mile is way insufficient)
Re:Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less...
by mwint on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:08AM
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”Wrong way down an express lane” is super contrived. Those are the kinds of clear cut issues that self driving is guaranteed to be better at than humans.
Re:Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less...
by lostmsu on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:11PM
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If semi can stop in 6 seconds sounding horn would do it.
Re:Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less...
by vagrantJin on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:11AM
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Every crash is avoidable by definition.
Human error/poor decisions, mechanical/electronic failures, acts of god could all reasonably be labelled as reasons.
Regardless of time.
Re:Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less...
by mwint on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:24AM
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Not every crash is physically avoidable _given a time constraint_. When you're a millisecond from impact, there's nothing you can do. One second, there exist many cases where there's nothing you can do.
10 seconds before impending collision, and it's hard to imagine the case where there's no time to react in some way that avoids the accident.