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Maybe it has something to do with grafting a lane-keeping cruise control system onto a multi-ton vehicle with lithium onboard, and testing on the open road bein
by calyth2018 8y ago
Maybe it has something to do with grafting a lane-keeping cruise control system onto a multi-ton vehicle with lithium onboard, and testing on the open road being a Bad Idea™?
If he was testing at the track, at least he's only risking people that he knows.
If it gets something as small as a fender bender, and his insurance gets a whiff of this, you'll bet that they'll try hard to null-and-void the coverage.
- mikeash 8y agoMillions of people graft ad hoc, poorly designed lane keeping and cruise control systems into their cars every day. The result is tens of thousands of fatalities each year in the US alone. Yet we seem to be ok with that.
- chairmanmow 8y agoI think this statement requires a source, millions of people are hacking auto-pilot like features each day, causing tens of thousands of fatalities? I don't know if I'd be ok with that, but I don't think it's true.
- mikeash 8y agoI said they are grafting “ad hoc, poorly designed lane keeping and cruise control systems into their cars”, not specifically Autopilot. This is just a colorful way of describing the act of sitting in the driver’s seat. In this case, a human being acts as the lane keeping and cruise control system. It is rather bad at these tasks.