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Aircraft autopilot will happily fly you into a mountain or other aircraft.
by readams 8y ago
Aircraft autopilot will happily fly you into a mountain or other aircraft.
- King-Aaron 8y agoI'm glad someone mentioned this. It's frustrating that the general public doesn't understand what the word 'autopilot' means... Otto the automatic pilot from the movie Airplane! isn't what an automatic pilot is. However, since it is commonly misrepresented, they should change the name of Tesla's system.
- Twisell 8y agoWhile true, there is like a lot of redondant auxiliary warning system in a plane that work independently of the autopilot. So if autopilot tried to fly you into a mountain, the humans pilots would have to willingly ignore all the warnings thrown at them (it happened recently, and was qualified as human error). What is terrifying with Tesla autopilot is that there is seemingly not enough auxiliary warning system. With only two of them (hand on wheel or stop, static object detection) you could have avoided almost all Tesla crashes. They putted beta vehicle in hand of customers, that’s a choice, now they have to live with it. Edit: first sentence was misleading