Tesla's Autopilot needs to be shut down and NHTSA needs to do their due diligence

[bhzmark]

This guy is like some unibomber manifesto nutjob. Just basic handwringing, afraid of change. no indication at all of intelligent analysis of real risk and probabilities and statistics, technologies.

Update since March

Lockheed Engineer/Whistleblower

Founder Professionals for Responsible Mobility


Autonomous Levels 4 and 5 will never be reached without Simulation vs Public Shadow Driving for AI.

Level 2+ and L3 should not be used at all


Public Shadow Driving is Dangerous and Untenable


Thousands of accidents, injuries and casualties will occur when these companies move from benign and easy scenarios to complex, dangerous and accident scenarios. And the cost in time and funding is untenable. One trillion public shadow driving miles would need to be driven at a cost of over $300B. The answer is to use aerospace level simulation and the best engineering practices the aerospace industry uses.

Much more detail in my article here
Letter to Congress - Handling of minimum standards for Autonomous industry

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/letter-congress-handling-minimum-standards-industry-michael-dekort/

 

[SlicedBr3ad]

Of course I reported it, I was on the phone with Tesla at Fremont when it happened! Within a couple of weeks, they called to request that I bring the 2017 MS 90D in for service. No anomaly found. I posted the results in a post here: Autopilot 2.0 is dangerous

Fwiw, I've started a thread to see others experience and maybe figure out what to do.

Experiences getting Tesla to resolve autopilot / EAP issues?

 

[shonline]

This guy is like some unibomber manifesto nutjob. Just basic handwringing, afraid of change. no indication at all of intelligent analysis of real risk and probabilities and statistics, technologies.

15 posts. Just joined. I smell something fishy for sure....

 

[SlicedBr3ad]

15 posts. Just joined. I smell something fishy for sure....

So as much as I'm worried about autopilot I don't want to NOT have autopilot as an option I can use. Autopilot is the reason I'm looking to buy Tesla in the first place.

 

[davidc18]

Not sure about AP 2.0 but 60,000+ miles on AP 1.0 (firmware 7.1) and we love the system. Very stable and reliable in our experience.

 

[shonline]

So as much as I'm worried about autopilot I don't want to NOT have autopilot as an option I can use. Autopilot is the reason I'm looking to buy Tesla in the first place.

Exactly. 40% safer according to NHTSA. I have AP 1, know how to use it and would not want to be without it at this point.

Every time I see a post like his on here (especially someone with 15 posts....) I suspect some sort of manipulation being attempted by a stock shorter, big auto supporter etc... they are wasting their time...

 

[stan23]

Lol at his linkedin.

He's basically trying to pedal his services by creating false hysteria. He's trying to sell some sort of testing services.

Not really doing a good job since this is first I heard of this guy.

His education is just as impressive. I see zero formal engineering training, and browsing through his past experiences, it's just a bunch of key words and key phrases.

The University of New Mexico
Certificate, Program Management
1998 – 1999