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This is relevant to a lot of the comments, so I'll just make it as a top-level comment. First, two videos of the latest version of the Tesla Autopilot firmware,
by dangrossman 10y ago
This is relevant to a lot of the comments, so I'll just make it as a top-level comment. First, two videos of the latest version of the Tesla Autopilot firmware, rolled out to Tesla vehicle owners this week. Each shows the car repeatedly trying to kill its driver:
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYav3_7miIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYav3_7miIc
2: https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=zYHrJvXcz6M&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUZ1XLqc5IUg%26feature%3Dshare https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=zYHrJvXcz6M&u=%2F...
Tesla broke ties with the previous supplier of its driver assist hardware and software last year after serious disagreements over the safety of Tesla's present and future Autopilot systems and how it was being marketed to consumers.
It's now been just a few months, and Tesla's rolled out their own Autopilot software to customers of cars built since the breakup with Mobileye.
That software doesn't have the years of testing the old software did. This one, as you can see in the videos I linked from the latest firmware, does things like drive your car off clearly marked roads inexplicably without warning. It is not acting safer than human drivers would in these situations.
I'm not happy about sharing the roads with cars that may drive themselves into me with no warning that there's anything wrong with what should be a simple lane keeping system. Especially when that system doesn't force the driver to keep their hands on the wheel, when obviously they need to be there with the software in this state.
I want to eventually benefit from the kind of self-driving cars Google is building (Waymo is down to a human temporarily taking the wheel once per 5000 miles of driving on public roads), without the harm of what startups like Tesla can do by putting essentially untested systems on production cars I share the road with.
There must be a regulatory middle ground?
- unityByFreedom 10y ago> There must be a regulatory middle ground? I think there is, I just wouldn't hold my breath for Congress to act on it. California is leading the way on this. Elect the right people there and hopefully that trickles up and across to other states.