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Tesla confirms another Autopilot accident

• gwern 10y ago
  ""It's a winding road going through a canyon, with no shoulder," Shope told CNNMoney. The driver told Shope the car was in Autopilot mode, traveling between 55 and 60 mph when it veered to the right and hit a series of wooden stakes on the side of the road. Tesla confirmed that the data it has from the car shows it was in Autopilot mode, and that the driver likely did not have his hands on the wheel." At 55mph+ and no margin, does it make the slightest difference if he had had his hands on the wheel?
• coolvison 10y ago
  "it can detect even a very small amount of force, such as one hand resting on the wheel." Then why is autosteer not disabled when hands are off the steering wheel? Can switch it off in this cases, or slow down, etc... This whole autosteer idea is completely delusional.
• empressplay 10y ago
  It's curious that the autopilot would continue to work when your hands are off the wheel, especially when Tesla notes they know when your hands are on it -- even more, the car knew the terrain and recommended speed and yet despite being "out of spec" it continued on autopilot anyhow?
  • mtgx 10y ago
    This is why I think this is a problem "by design", and Tesla could fix it "by design" as well. But that would mean drastically reducing Autopilot's marketing power, so Tesla chooses not to do that. Instead it chooses to leave the Autopilot in a much riskier mode, while telling drivers in a footnote not to take their hand offs the wheel, or they could die.