I would say if Autopilot reduces the number of accidents/injuries/fatalities then you should not take it off the market. Now, I am very suspicious of Tesla's simplistic statistics on this and I would love it if third party researchers got their hands on the data and did an independent analysis.
This is true but the NHTSA's mandate is to make the roads safe. If an automaker releases a feature that makes the roads less safe they have the authority to force changes.
If this is really your position, then we will have to ban cars, bikes, knives, pencils, etc. Your position essentially translates into: the only way you will stop 'stupid' people from hurting themselves is to ban everything.
No body said ban. What I said is better controls need to be implemented. Having a hand on the wheel with my eyes closed does not work. The vehicle needs to have a better monitoring system. Other vehicles do it, other vehicles that don’t even have a self driving assisted driving whatever you want to call it, system. Sure stupid is as stupid does but I do t have to hand the guy the scissors before he runs off with them. It’s not a on or off situation. It could be better. That’s all I am saying. That and I do t like that Tesla is content with the end user performing all the testing on public roads. If the system worked it wouldn’t inadvertently drive into truck or steer into center dividers. It’s these small issues that need to be worked out until the general public is ready to use it. The system gives to much of a false sense of security. Maybe not to those of us who realize the limitations s but we are the minority.
Your right and this perfectly illustrates my point on how the general public views autopilot because Tesla calls it Autopilot and Full self drive and it is neither.
Would it have been better for him to pass out without AP running while driving?? I'd argue that AP may well have saved lives in these cases. It IMPROVED safety. Your examples aren't holding a lot of water here.
Oh yeah. Thank goodness the drunk put on his autopilot. We should all be grateful. What would have even been better is if the system reconginized the driver wasn’t being attentive because his eyes were closed, gave a warning to alert the driver and when that didn’t work pulled over shut off and put on the hazards.
An owners manual which most people don’t read. How many time have I seen someone on this forum give instructions to read the owners manual when they asked a simple question. That’s doesn’t make it right, but that shouldn’t be the fall back answer for such a important aspect of the system. Tesla could be more proactive on monitoring wither a driver is being attentive as well. Nissan just released details of their self driving system that utilizes a camera to monitor driver attentiveness. Now in my opinion the rest of the system is behind Tesla, but this is a good idea that you think with such a reported focus on safety would use instead of the stupid, I can fool it with an orange, torque sensing system.
I would be be curious to see an overpass that would cause a false positive with LIDAR or a semi trailer that would be invisible to it.Exactly. RADAR has exactly the same problem that LIDAR does in terms of removing ground clutter. Is that a bridge that you're about to go under or a trailer that you're about to go under? Does the road slope down just ahead or does the road turn right before a sheer cliff? Is that a bump in the road or a body? And so on.
The only way to be sure is with vision, and maybe not even then.
That doesn't really help much. I mean yes, it can help a little bit, but ultimately the purpose of either RADAR or LIDAR is to identify additional areas of concern for the vision system to look into, so resolution isn't particularly important unless you're trying to use it to avoid running over small animals in the road or something. For the most part, interesting obstacles are not small, and small obstacles are not interesting.
What makes you think the current solution is only 5%?
That is a silly argument. There are always going to be idiots who subvert the system because "they know better". People, particularly back seat passengers, buckle the seatbelt and then sit down because they don't want to use them, but no one blames seatbelts for that kind of behaviour.
