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I'm not an owner, but even I know that the Adaptive Cruise control is for use on clear highways and can't cope with much. This was a situation where the driver
by cjensen 10y ago
I'm not an owner, but even I know that the Adaptive Cruise control is for use on clear highways and can't cope with much.
This was a situation where the driver plainly needed to take over, had plenty of time to take over, and the issue was sufficiently obvious that even a non-alert driver who was looking forward would see they needed to take over.
There's an argument to be made that relying on partial automation is a fundamentally bad idea because the driver will not become sufficiently alert in time to save themselves. This is not an example of such a situation.
- soccerdave 10y agoAs the driver said in his comments, when he'd seen the system stop 1,000 times in the past he had a false sense of security that it was actually going to stop for him like it was supposed to.
- cjensen 10y agoIf the driver had used it off-highway 1,000 times in the past, but then the Tesla made an error off-highway, is it Tesla's fault or the driver's fault? This isn't even a Tesla issue: most car makers now ship cars with adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go. If they stop 95% of the time in this situation, do we really have to ban them because some drivers insist that past experiences constitute a valid test?