Yes, I'm a pretty big Tesla fan, but this has been my main criticism against Tesla's cars. The most rabid fanbois don't want to believe it, and just buy Tesla's

Yes, I'm a pretty big Tesla fan, but this has been my main criticism against Tesla's cars. The most rabid fanbois don't want to believe it, and just buy Tesla's argument that it's the driver's fault when an accident happens while AutoPilot is running, because he "didn't take the wheel in time." I think Ford's study proved that humans can't react quickly like that if they don't already drive the vehicle, and I was able to figure that out myself simply through intuition, way before Ford discovered it. I also think that internally Tesla does believe the same thing, which is why it has pulled its "self-driving" ads from around the world. It's just publicly continuing to say that if there is an accident then it's the drivers' fault "because there are plenty of warnings" (like 200 miliseconds before a crash) or that it asks you to put your hands on the wheel every 5 minutes, as if that does anything. An accident could easily happen in-between those 5 minutes. I guess that feature is there because Tesla also learned that people keep dozing off when a car is self-driven. But I think people who start dozing off because they aren't driving the car themselves will be able to ignore the sounds relatively easily. The bottom line is that such systems put humans in an almost impossible situation that they're not equipped to deal with as humans, and Tesla and others act like they're legally covered and that's all that matters. I think there should only be two types of systems: autonomous features that only activate in emergency situations to save people's lives (like auto-braking when there is an accident about to happen), and complete self-driving that doesn't need a human's attention at all. There shouldn't be anything in between.