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Justifications to real life are not really relevant because that isn't what regular people know. What "autopilot" means is what you see in the movies. When a c
by Negitivefrags 9y ago
Justifications to real life are not really relevant because that isn't what regular people know. What "autopilot" means is what you see in the movies.
When a computerised voice in a sci fi movie says "Autopilot engaged" what does that usually mean?
- Piskvorrr 9y agoThat you're spending so much time in fiction that you are losing a grip on reality. There's also teleportation, flying broomsticks and miles-long star dreadnoughts in those stories; surely you don't expect those as well?
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- QasimK 9y agoIt’s not about him, but about what your average person believes autopilot means
- Piskvorrr 9y agoPoint taken.
- arkades 9y agoDoes it even have to be about the “average” person? What percentage of the population has ever been exposed to real autopilot systems? For all the rest, sci-fi autopilot is the only reference point. A person doesn’t have to be particularly ignorant not to be exposed to these things; I’d tentatively posit most people growing up in an urban center have never been behind the console of a plane or a boat.
- QasimK 9y agoI agree. I think by average I was referring to what you said - most people have never controlled planes or boats. Perhaps “ordinary” would have been clearer.
- Negitivefrags 9y agoNobody is purporting to sell me those things.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoI do agree that Tesla seems to be doing their utmost to say something akin to "it could be autonomous, if if if" - and that an average consumer could read that as "it is autonomous, full stop."
- dagw 9y agoI do agree that Tesla seems to be doing their utmost to say something akin to "it could be autonomous, if if if" They are not doing their utmost. They're doing the minimum necessary to avoid getting sued. Their sales people and marketing material are pushing autonomous hard, and being very quiet about the limitations. If you're not following the tech news on these issues and only going by what the sales guy at the dealership told you, then the confusion is very reasonable.