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That's the same as blaming your car company for getting speeding tickets when you used cruise control. How many of those letters have you sent out?
by lsaferite 10y ago
That's the same as blaming your car company for getting speeding tickets when you used cruise control. How many of those letters have you sent out?
- mdorazio 10y agoNo, it's not the same at all. With cruise control you are still fully in control of your car and necessarily aware of how fast you are going and what is going on in your surroundings. With Autopilot that is simply not the case - the technology virtually begs you to set it and then play with your phone or the touchscreen instead of paying attention to the road, text warnings be damned. If you want an actually applicable analogy, I'll pull one I've used before. Say you buy an oven that has this great auto-baking feature that lets you just put some cookie dough inside it and then come back whenever you want, even hours later, to have fresh baked cookies waiting. That's how it's marketed - the AutoBake Oven. Except the manufacturer says that you're still supposed to watch the oven at all times in case something goes wrong. So you make some cookies with it and they turn out great, and nothing goes wrong. And hey, it's the AutoBake Oven, right? It says it will bake things automatically so you don't have to worry about them for hours at a time. So you logically decide to put some dough in there and then go the grocery store for a few minutes to get some items for dinner. And you come back and your house burned down because the AutoBake Oven lit itself on fire due to having subpar sensors and beta software in it. Now tell me you wouldn't file a lawsuit against the manufacturer.