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I don't have a Tesla, but I have a car with ACC. When I activate ACC I do not have to pay 100% attention to the distance between my car and the one in front of
by chrisper 8y ago
I don't have a Tesla, but I have a car with ACC.
When I activate ACC I do not have to pay 100% attention to the distance between my car and the one in front of me and the speed. The car does all the work for me. I only have to keep steering and make sure that if the car in front of me stops in an emergency way that I start breaking myself because in certain cases it is too late for ACC to notice it.
In traffic jams (< 30 km/h) ACC takes away 90% of the work.
The difference is that my car got marketed with ACC as a driver assitance and not "self driving autopilot."
- abalone 8y agoI am not talking about ACC. I’m talking about autosteering. But it’s interesting you concede the primary benefit is paying less attention. If you did that in a Tesla you would be violating the TOS and be responsible for resulting accidents. Ergo, what is the TOS-compatible benefit?
- chrisper 8y agoI would rather say, it allows me to pay more attention to other things, like the traffic around me, or doing lane changes etc. But that TOS thing is kind of weird. What is "not paying attention"? Looking at a sign while the car in front of you slams the breaks? Technically you are not paying attention to the car at that moment and breaking the TOS.
- abalone 8y agoSo if I understand correctly, you’re saying it allows you to pay less attention to the car in front of you and more to the traffic around you. Yeah, you’re absolutely not supposed to do that (in a Tesla at least). You’re supposed to pay 100% as much attention to stuff you might hit as without autopilot. If you hit the car in front of you because autopilot motivated you to look more at other cars around you, Tesla will say you misused the feature. Ergo, what is the benefit? I’m only hearing benefits that result from violating the TOS.