Tesla's New 'Ludicrous Mode' Makes the Model S a Supercar[/URL]
made throttle control a fully automated control system since humans could not begin to perceive the approaching limits. Of course that was the case all the time. It's only that users did not know it.
Frankly we all need to understand that when hubris and associated superficiality enters the equation disaster is not far behind. The world has copious examples.
When very assiduous efforts are made to avoid hubris when have Falcon 9, Tesla pioneering li-ion batteries and countless other things.
When hubris enters we have SMS, B737MAX, VW ID.3 and many others. The common equation for many of them has been huge success followed by complacency followed by hubris.
When hubris is avoided we can have outsized success as Tesla, SpaceX, Amazon and many others show. Any of those can begin to be complacent which will inevitably produce hubris and disaster. After all only unprecedented automation could produce BioNTech. Similarly hubris can snatch disaster from outsized success. One definitive not-so-automated example is Linus Pauling.
In sum, hubris is always with us. The challenge is to have progress without hubris. It ain't easy. Thus Elon needs Gwynne Shotwell and Jerome Guillen, among others.
That little change of round steering wheel to something slightly different has probably helped us to really understand how different the world has become.