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> It does not invite highway hypnosis. The explanation for this lies in your past driving experience. You lend the Auto-Pilot a duty you have been trained to pe
by jakecopp 8y ago
> It does not invite highway hypnosis. The explanation for this lies in your past driving experience. You lend the Auto-Pilot a duty you have been trained to perform yourself, and this somehow makes you just a little uneasy. It is not an entirely relaxing thing to sit back at 70 m.p.h. and feel the engine get gas from some other agency than yourself; your alertness is more likely to be heightened than lulled. This slight wariness stays with you as long as the device is working, even after thousands of miles have been logged.
This exact same sentence sounds like it could be applied to Tesla's Autopilot (correctly or not I don't know!)
- Piskvorrr 8y agoCould be, but isn't. Even with modern cruise control, you're just freed from the accelerator; there's still plenty of driving tasks to keep you alert ("what is that opposite vehicle's intent? Is there something in that shadow, threatening to enter my path? Which of the three closely consecutive exits do I take?"). With the promise of "it drives itself", you're prone to leaving the driver's seat, figuratively speaking (although there are people that have done literally that).