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While I greatly appreciate Tesla pushing this technology out in a reasonable time frame, I do feel that they let their marketing speak trump safety by referring
by j2bax 10y ago
While I greatly appreciate Tesla pushing this technology out in a reasonable time frame, I do feel that they let their marketing speak trump safety by referring to this technology as Autopilot. I don't doubt that they intend to eventually push this tech to the point that Autopilot is an appropriate name, but calling it such at this stage is disenguous at best and ultimately could be hindered by people treating it as its named and getting hurt or killed. It's not reasonable to expect all drivers that may get behind the wheel of a Tesla to get proper training and definitions for its technology package.
- stefanix 10y agoThe term is certainly no exaggeration if you look at what an autopilot does in a plane. Keep attitude, maybe turn to next waypoint. All in all super primitive to what a Tesla does.
- cloakandswagger 10y agoI'm sure Tesla has stacks of pre-prepared legal defense around the term, and they'll certainly make the same airplane argument. My bet is it will quickly fall apart. Ask your average person what "autopilot" implies and they're going to give you the sci-fi definition of a completely autonomous driving system, not many people know about the mechanics and limitations of autopilots in airplanes.
- Xylakant 10y agoThat's totally sufficient for airplanes since crossing semi-trailers are fairly rare on airways. Jokes aside, all obstacles for airplanes are radar tracked, so keeping attitude is all that it needs doing. If human intervention is needed, the system usually has time to warn. Still, even those super-simple systems fail.
- ams6110 10y agoAll commercial aircraft have TCAS (collision avoidance).
- rasz_pl 10y agoModern plane autopilot is perfectly capable of automatic takeoff and landing.