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Also going to play devil's advocate here. Sure the car only goes a few hundred metres, but a slight knock of the wheel as they pass out or a small corner in the
by BigJono 10y ago
Also going to play devil's advocate here. Sure the car only goes a few hundred metres, but a slight knock of the wheel as they pass out or a small corner in the road could easily send said car into a crowded cafe.
What is the chance that a Tesla car fails to continue safely and eventually pull over after the driver carks it? 0.1%? 1%? I doubt anywhere near 99% of strokes while driving end with the car just slowing down for a hundred metres and stopping safely in the middle of the road. I'd be surprised if the majority do. Not that it's a common occurance, but if I picture a typical stroke while driving alone, I'm picturing a car veering slowly off the road and hitting something at maybe 50-75% of the speed it was originally travelling.
Tesla's self-driving would have to be abysmally bad to not beat that, and given we're only discussing 3 accidents so far, I don't believe that to be the case.
- taneq 10y agoI agree with your analysis of how far each vehicle will get - in fact that's why I say the car on autopilot is more dangerous. A conventional car with cruise control enabled will 'fail early' and crash in fairly short order (most likely running off the road into a crash barrier or something) if the driver stops controlling it. A car on autopilot won't crash for some undefined but probably long time, which means that when things do go pear-shaped, it's much more likely to be on the road and in a significantly different environment from where it was driving.