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> "And really there’s a sweet spot you have to find where you use automation to relieve the pilot of some amount of workload" ... and that sweetspot, for highw
by semi-extrinsic 9y ago
> "And really there’s a sweet spot you have to find where you use automation to relieve the pilot of some amount of workload"
... and that sweetspot, for highway driving, looks to be around the 1998 level of having automatic transmission + cruise control.
As we've seen examples in two recent fatal accidents, a driver with too little to do is dangerous.
- Retric 9y agoYou need to look at both benefits and downsides. Tesla autopilot does seem to have net safety benefits though the data is far from conclusive. Honestly, I expect insurance companies probably have the least biased data but even then they may not have the same trade-offs in terms of damage vs fatalities as we would like.
- ummonk 9y agoI'd say adaptive cruise control is actually better in the sweet-spot. I have a Subaru with adaptive cruise control and find it rather beneficial in freeing up my attention from trying to carefully micromanage the throttle / brake to actually focus on more important things. It has lane-keeping assist, too, but that is more of a backup safety feature than an autonomous feature (and indeed I wouldn't want lane-centering functionality except in really slow traffic jams).