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I think this is a much more appropriate use of the technology present in Tesla cars than allowing it to self drive. I'm firmly in the "shouldn't have worked tha
by yladiz 10y ago
I think this is a much more appropriate use of the technology present in Tesla cars than allowing it to self drive. I'm firmly in the "shouldn't have worked that way" camp of Autopilot -- no matter what Tesla or Musk says, the first thing I would think of as someone who is not a trained pilot is that Autopilot is a self driving feature of a car, and believe that the wording and marketing, combined with the reckless use of simple technology like cameras, instead of stronger technology like the radars here, caused crashes. I'm glad that even though they have stronger tech they are still toning down the marketing and the use of any self driving features, so kudos to Tesla (it might have been due to bad PR but still).
However, I have to wonder why this is news. Other cars have had similar technology for a long time but when they prevent a crash it's not news. Is the only reason this is news is because it's Tesla and that they've had high profile crashes in the past, so they're spinning up the PR machine?