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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by SoftTalker on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:56PM (#44761686)
Notably, an aircraft autopilot will NOT avoid hitting anything in its path, or slow down for it, or react to it in any way. It's just that the sky is very big and other aircraft are very small, so random collisions are extremely unlikely.
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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by metabagel on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:33PM (#44762167)
Airplanes and automobiles differ in a number of ways.
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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by JumpCrisscross on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:44PM (#44762289)
> an aircraft autopilot will NOT avoid hitting anything in its path, or slow down for it, or react to it in any way

TAWS (terrain) and ACAS (traffic) are built into modern autopilots.

And Tesla lied about its autopilot’s capabilities in proximity to this crash: “In 2016, the company posted a video of what appears to be a car equipped with Autopilot driving on its own. ‘The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons,’ reads a caption that flashes at the beginning of the video. ‘He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.’ (Six years later, a senior Tesla engineer conceded as part of a separate lawsuit that the video was staged and did not represent the true capabilities of the car.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5462851/tesla-lawsuit-a...

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