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This. I don't know I feel ambivalent about autopilot right now, as most on HN I always crave for new technologies, but the fact that something very dangerous ca
by doe88 9y ago
This. I don't know I feel ambivalent about autopilot right now, as most on HN I always crave for new technologies, but the fact that something very dangerous can be very good most of the time and very bad occasionally make me weary of using it altogether. I know that's irrational because most often then not it probably saves you from your own mistakes.
Also, if Tesla intends to shield itself behind a beta status for their autopilot system until it is perfect, I think this beta status will remain even longer then the time GMail was in beta. At least, in this case they should own this problem and somewhat hardcode a meaningful warning at such intersections or do something.
- carlivar 9y agoIt's not irrational at all. I drive our family 2018 Honda Odyssey, and it's already "saving me from my own mistakes" by beeping angrily when I signal for a lane change and there's someone in my blind spot. Works really well. It also has a notification light on each side of the car to indicate blind spot object presence, so I have to miss that first. The question seems to be which is better: 1) A car very intelligently helping a human drive better. 2) Or a car mostly driving well itself but needing humans to very rarely override fatal crashes. I prefer 1) I'm not sure there are any studies comparing these things, since "human driving but lots of extra tech help" is harder to quantify and doesn't have all the data going back to the mothership like Tesla.
- JKCalhoun 9y agoFor me, you nailed it. Just more 1 above please.
- worldsayshi 9y agoI think that 1 and 2 still can entail the same problems though. If it helps you check your blind spot you might occasionally stop checking yourself and rely on it to check for you. Then you implicitly start relying on that feature to work. It's different degrees of handing over control though.
- oldgradstudent 9y agoWhy are they allowed to put beta software on public roads where third parties that never consented to their EULA are put at risk. If they want beta software on a private track, that's their (and their insurance company's) problem.
- buvanshak 9y agoBecause no one is stopping them from. Even here, in HN, which is supposed to be filled with tech people, this is rarely asked. Then it is not surprising the common people and non-tech savvy authorities are complacent...
- Piskvorrr 9y agoOh, it is asked all right. But then the business side interrupts with time-to-market and diminishing returns and the cost of settling out of court vs. probability thereof - and voila, "move fast and kill people".
- qaq 9y agoYou just described every modern car on the road.