FAKE NEWS!!!
Garbage, None of those things work!!!
I have autopilot and FSD and these are all lies and fake news.
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
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FAKE NEWS!!!
Garbage, None of those things work!!!
I have autopilot and FSD and these are all lies and fake news.
Sen. Markey sent a letter to Tesla asking them to disable AP until they fix the anti nag tricks. You can watch it here:
Tesla is under pressure by Senator over Autopilot claims and nag defeat tricks - Electrek
I definitely think he has a point about the anti-nag tricks being bad and dangerous. I believe the autopilot buddy device is already illegal.
Ideally, Tesla should use a camera based driver monitoring system but unfortunately, that is not going to happen any time soon plus it could not be retrofitted into existing cars.
So what can Tesla do to solve this problem? Is there a software fix? Could Tesla modulate the torque requirement slightly so that a constant torque would not work anymore?
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
I called the Senators office. I asked his staffers if the Senator has ever been in or driven a Tesla. After 5 minutes they said he had not. I politely asked the following question:
If I get into my Subaru and decide to buckle the seatbelt before I get in so I don't have to hear the chime of the seatbelt ring telling me to buckle up. Should Subaru do something more to protect me? I mean I have deliberately avoided a safety measure that could save my life.
Not exactly sure this is a Tesla problem. Maybe it is up to people that read exactly what it says in the car multiple times and follow it. So what your saying @diplomat33 you would like more nags not less? So I have to be glued at a 10 and 2 position and stare straight forward. Not every Electrek article needs a solution, and why is a camera in the cabin monitoring me a ideal solution in your mind?
Oh come on.
* Guns don't indiscriminately go out and kill people, and a lot of deaths are due to suicides. Firearms are used multiples more to save lives than used to take lives. There are no safeguards that can be used to prevent a nut job who wants to kill themselves, or others. Then you have that pesky 2A which guarantees the right to firearms ownership.
* I presume that you're talking about the 737 MAX and the MCAS that's gotten the bad rap? Not a death here in the US due to different standards of hiring and pilot training, not to mention the "company" purchasing a second AOA sensor along with a "disagree" light. In addition, the Lion Air incident started with a prior flight crew encounter a problem, and a dead legging pilot aboard showing the flight crew how to respond - which that same dead legging pilot was not on the subsequent flight which did crash. Not to mention flight certification is a very draconian beast, requiring not only reams of paperwork, but 40 hours of self-test before the FAA will allow the plane to be certified as even experimental. Now try to get a Part 91 or even Part 135 certification, you're talking a whole different slew of minimum equipment and TSO's.
Anyhow ... Tesla gives a feature to users which actually can be used to increase safety. Disabling a safety feature because some people want even more convenience is silly. Seat belts chime, you don't wear them. You have to have 10 oz of weight on the steering, so people want to disable the entire thing? How is that going to increase safety when you get back to accidents in traffic, increase in accidents after daylights savings, and sleepy drivers?
Sen. Markey sent a letter to Tesla asking them to disable AP until they fix the anti nag tricks. You can watch it here:
Tesla is under pressure by Senator over Autopilot claims and nag defeat tricks - Electrek
I definitely think he has a point about the anti-nag tricks being bad and dangerous. I believe the autopilot buddy device is already illegal.
Ideally, Tesla should use a camera based driver monitoring system but unfortunately, that is not going to happen any time soon plus it could not be retrofitted into existing cars.
So what can Tesla do to solve this problem? Is there a software fix? Could Tesla modulate the torque requirement slightly so that a constant torque would not work anymore?
I just wish there was a real way to get the personal information back to those "youtubers" insurance companies and have their insurance dropped or increased 10X. Anyone can act stupid in any car but for whatever reason if Tesla is mentioned at all it garners a weird increased amount of attention.Instead of disabling auto pilot in Teslas, why not disable YouTube?
If the Senator genuinely cares about safety, he should require all automakers to install devices to prevent texting as well as dialing or receiving phone calls while driving. I fear the Senator is merely seeking publicity by singling out Tesla. Statistics show far more accidents from texting than from misuse of AP.
Unless the human is intentionally moving the wheel, yeah, it does. It exerts the arm's weight in a downward direction from a single point where the arm is gripping.
I just wish it had real hands on wheel detection. I drive right hand at 12. I’m so used to driving that I automatically turn with the autopilot, not tug against it. The nag rarely detects my hand.
After a year, I still am not 100% perfect at the tug pressure to let the dumb nag know my hand is and always was on the wheel.
The jerk as the autopilot is disabled at a slightly too hard tug to remind autopilot that my hand is there is dangerously jarring. The flashing blue on the screen takes my eyes off the road.
Capacitive touch and or pressure sensing in the steering wheel would be great.
The only thing a cabin facing nanny cam is good for is getting covered with black gaffers tape. if the senator wants invasive video, how about he puts a web cam up in his office so we can see all the other stupid ways he wastes taxpayers money?
Happily, the U.S. government is ineffective here. It has to have proof of its claims which often takes years to collect. With Tesla changing its software frequently, the government will never have the proof it needs....the government will, at some point, step in and do it for them. ...
Happily, the U.S. government is ineffective here. It has to have proof of its claims which often takes years to collect. With Tesla changing its software frequently, the government will never have the proof it needs.
That would work well for a mannequin perhaps, but humans don't hold themselves in a constant position for long. It is tiring on the muscles since at any given position only a few muscles are taking the brunt of the forces. Even in out sleep we move around to promote circulation.
You use the accelerometers in the car to correct for torque due to bumps. I bet bumps would actually make detection easier, a human arm probably responds much differently to bumps than a dead weight. The defeat device detection could take place over a long time period and then put the user in autopilot jail.Every time you hit a bump, even a dead weight adds or removes torque, though. How often does an average person make involuntary motions at a time that is far enough removed from a bump temporally to definitively say that it wasn’t just caused by momentum? I bet it is way less often than once every twenty seconds. That’s the problem with detecting by torque alone.
You use the accelerometers in the car to correct for torque due to bumps. I bet bumps would actually make detection easier, a human arm probably responds much differently to bumps than a dead weight.
So what can Tesla do to solve this problem?