Do you own a Tesla? I suspect not.
If you did, you would understand that Autopilot, at this stage, is a driver assistance tool. Rule number 1 is that the driver is responsible for maintaining safe control of the vehicle. As @Papafox noted, in the video from another TMC member that you re-posted the driver drove too fast for Autopilot's current capabilities on a curvy road (in fact, he was driving above the speed limit). And after having to take control once, the driver should have slowed down or simply maintained control of the vehicle himself but did not. If you were an experienced Autopilot driver, you would also understand that taking control of the vehicle is a relatively common occurrence, and is not life threatening, any more than avoiding the numerous threats on the road when driving without Autopilot.
You attack me for posting factual information about the accident reduction reported by the NHTSA from AP1. But what you do not seem willing to understand or acknowledge is that fear-mongering about Autopilot is what is irresponsible and poses a threat to public safety.
We saw the same sort of thing with AP1 and it was thoroughly debunked, with the NHTSA reporting that in its first year cars with AP1 enabled had airbag-activating (serious) accidents drop by 40%. If the naysayers, like yourself, had had their way, they would have needlessly put Tesla owners and their families and passengers in harms' way, exposing them to a far higher risk of accident, injury and perhaps death. Yet, in your zeal to bash Tesla, you seem unwilling to bring yourself to acknowledge that AP1 might actually be avoiding accidents and saving lives.
In fact, over the past two years, while AP1-enabled vehicles experienced a massive drop in serious accidents, the National Safety Council estimated that overall automobile fatalities in the U.S. actually increased by 14% -- the largest in more than 50 years -- with about 40,000 people dying on the roads in the U.S. in 2016. U.S. motor vehicle deaths see biggest two year jump in over 50 years, per NSC
Think about it. If the rest of the automobile industry had achieved the 40 percent reduction in serious accidents the NHTSA reported in Tesla vehicles after enabling AP1, it is possible that 15,000-20,000 lives could have been saved in the U.S. in just one year. That is the promise of this technology.
And yet, people like you who try to stand in its way are the ones who claim to be concerned about public safety. That is a cruel joke.
AP2 is a much more powerful and robust system than AP1, and Tesla already has access to reams of data on its safety gathered over millions of miles. Tesla is rolling AP2 out slowly and carefully as the data permits. Given Tesla's track record with AP1, I trust its analysis of the data far more than a random internet poster with an axe to grind cherry picking a few videos that show AP2's limitations.
It is not Tesla who is falling down on the job of improving automotive safety but the rest of the industry, including the automakers in your home state of Michigan. It is their efforts that are proving totally ineffective in protecting public safety on the roads, while Tesla is moving rapidly ahead with life-saving Autopilot technology. And when the data come out in a year or two, I am confident that Autopilot 2's safety will again be vindicated, and that all of the AP2 naysayers will be nowhere to be found, just like the AP1 naysayers are now.
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