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Which is why there are so many laws and regulations surrounding them, the most basic of which is a technical inspection every few years. If your brakes don't w

Which is why there are so many laws and regulations surrounding them, the most basic of which is a technical inspection every few years. If your brakes don't work your car is illegal on the road (at least here in Europe). But apparently if its a software bug in the brakes then its okay to drive it around...

toomuchtodo 8y ago
The US NHTSA and state regulators have allowed Tesla to continue to offer Autopilot, therefore I believe your argument to be invalid (versus that of domain experts), although you are entitled to your opinion. There is no way that Autopilot is worse than human drivers: https://i.imgur.com/au8A1o3.gifv https://i.imgur.com/au8A1o3.gifv
sowbug 8y ago
The number of question marks and exclamation points in your original post does not fit the relative severity of the issue you are describing. If you used that many question marks to describe a car with an imperfect auto-braking system, I can't imagine how many you'd use to describe a car with a human braking system. In the U.S., those humans fail to brake, with consequences, 2.5 million times a year. https://www.scmitchell.com/blog/2017/may/rear-end-collisions-40-of-all-car-crashes/ https://www.scmitchell.com/blog/2017/may/rear-end-collisions... Even when self-driving cars become popular, people will still be injured and die in them. And it won't be just a subset of the people who would have died without such cars. It will almost certainly be a different, randomly selected group of people. If it's your time to go, does it matter to you whether you died because a texting teenager slammed into your stopped car? Or because an edge case triggered in a car's software? The former case is just stupid. The latter case is something society can learn from and prevent from ever happening again. If you are in favor of more people dying in "normal" accidents, then by all means, please continue expressing your outrage. The cost of progress in this area is computers making mistakes instead of people making them.

toomuchtodo 8y ago

The US NHTSA and state regulators have allowed Tesla to continue to offer Autopilot, therefore I believe your argument to be invalid (versus that of domain experts), although you are entitled to your opinion. There is no way that Autopilot is worse than human drivers: https://i.imgur.com/au8A1o3.gifv https://i.imgur.com/au8A1o3.gifv

sowbug 8y ago

The number of question marks and exclamation points in your original post does not fit the relative severity of the issue you are describing. If you used that many question marks to describe a car with an imperfect auto-braking system, I can't imagine how many you'd use to describe a car with a human braking system. In the U.S., those humans fail to brake, with consequences, 2.5 million times a year. https://www.scmitchell.com/blog/2017/may/rear-end-collisions-40-of-all-car-crashes/ https://www.scmitchell.com/blog/2017/may/rear-end-collisions... Even when self-driving cars become popular, people will still be injured and die in them. And it won't be just a subset of the people who would have died without such cars. It will almost certainly be a different, randomly selected group of people. If it's your time to go, does it matter to you whether you died because a texting teenager slammed into your stopped car? Or because an edge case triggered in a car's software? The former case is just stupid. The latter case is something society can learn from and prevent from ever happening again. If you are in favor of more people dying in "normal" accidents, then by all means, please continue expressing your outrage. The cost of progress in this area is computers making mistakes instead of people making them.