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Tesla was not a self driving car, please stop confusing this. This case is in fact the first autonomous test vehicle caused fatality. There were at least sev
by felippee 9y ago
Tesla was not a self driving car, please stop confusing this.
This case is in fact the first autonomous test vehicle caused fatality.
There were at least several Tesla autopilot related fatalities and injuries, but I would seriously not put those into self driving bag.
- iooi 9y agoCan you provide a source? From all the articles I can find, the language is all pretty much the same: "Tesla driver killed while using autopilot" "The Tesla driver killed in the first known fatal crash involving a self-driving car" "It's been nearly a year and a half since Joshua Brown became the first person to die in a car driving itself." "Tesla bears some blame for self-driving crash death, feds say"
- dang 9y agoCould you please not use allcaps for emphasis in HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- iooi 9y agoSorry, I just pasted the text in the article.
- dahdum 9y agoTesla doesn’t have self driving capability, their autopilot is just driver assistance (like adaptive cruise control).
- falcolas 9y agoDriver assistance that takes care of everything (i.e. steering, braking, navigating, parking), that at the time the accident occurred didn't even require hands on the steering wheel? Seems like an attempt to shift the blame off the autopilot system and onto the driver.
- throwaway1982x 9y agoWhat counts as autonomous seems often to be inflated when considering positive statistics such as miles driven, and minimised when considering negative statistics such as fatalities. At least, there needs to be agreed consistency before we can claim anything statistical.