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>However, Tesla calling it "Autopilot" should be no longer allowed. Meh, autopilots on boats don't do anything more than steer a straight compass course.
by spurgu 9y ago
>However, Tesla calling it "Autopilot" should be no longer allowed.
Meh, autopilots on boats don't do anything more than steer a straight compass course.
- Someone1234 9y agoThat's inaccurate. Many marine autopilots integrate with AIS, sonar, and charts for accident avoidance and alerts. For example on some larger ships it is able to calculate if at the current speed a collision would occur and reduce speed to avoid it. Some can do "port to port" auto-steer, taking the vesicle through narrow channels.
- spurgu 9y agoWe are both accurate. I was talking about boats, not ships. My point still stands - ships are required by Collision Regulations to keep a lookout at all times. And yet they are called "autopilots". Even the most crude of devices that I described (that is used on pleasure boats).