Eevee
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OK Zeno, of course. But it's MORE likely that AP can handle a situation well if it has done so in the past numerous times. A normal person would be MORE cautious the first few times traveling that route/that style of driving than after they've done it over and over everyday for months or maybe even years.No two passes will ever be the same. He could have the same result 99 times then a swerve into the median on the 100th.
I'm frustrated by this thread's pile on the driver. He may have made some poor choices by driving 80 on AP. But you know what? Tesla allows that. They stick a bunch of warnings in the manual but there's tons of evidence that suggest human behavior will ignore the warnings and do unsafe things anyway. If they really cared about driver safety AND that style of driving was very unsafe, then Tesla should not allow it. Humans doing stupid, unsafe things is MORE predictable than AP suddenly going haywire after successfully driving a stretch of freeway hundreds of times.
There's already a ton of evidence that humans tend to trust AP more than they should. It's like the cases of infant devices - things that are perfectly safe when used properly and following the manual/warnings but that in reality often get used improperly and result in baby deaths. The manufacturers should do more to prevent improper use because, well, humans are stupid.
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