On 7/9/21 11:55 PM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
But, honestly, if the driver is paying attention and autopilot shuts
down, what's to lose ? Up to that point, either autopilot was driving
the car correctly, in which case the driver should be able to continue
just fine without it. Or, autopilot was not driving correctly in which
case the driver should have already taken over. I am having a hard time
to imagine a situation where Tesla or autopilot can be blamed for a
crash unless it actually prevented the driver from taking over, and that
has never happened as far as I know.
Yes, the driver is still responsible, but the big issue is that Tesla
advertises it as an "auto-pilot" or "full self driving (beta)" that is
designed to (eventually) drive your care with no required supervision
from the driver.
Every other car manufacturer calls it "lane assist" or "intelligent
cruse control" or "freeway driving assistant", which more accurately
gives the user the impression that it's a fallible assistant that needs
to be directly supervised, and not something that you would even
consider tying a weight to your steering wheel and watching a movie with.
This leads to people using it (and trusting it?) in dangerous situations
where if it cuts out things go wrong very quickly.
See for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ATJaVTpviQ
There is also an issue of how much time a driver needs to recognize that
the auto-pilot has failed and take control. In the video above, it
starts to "Bing" less than a second before they are crashed into the trees.
Jay
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