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They probably get away with calling it autopilot for several reasons. #1: Autopilot is mainly two features (Adaptive cruse and auto-steer) that must be enabled
by extrapickles 8y ago
They probably get away with calling it autopilot for several reasons.
#1: Autopilot is mainly two features (Adaptive cruse and auto-steer) that must be enabled in the settings screen, and the driver must click “I agree” on the screen listing the limitations of the feature in reasonably large print.
#2: When engaged, the car reminds the driver to pay attention to the road. To engage “autopilot” the driver turns on cruse control, then turns on auto-steer.
Probably when the car can do level 4 driving they will let the driver just engage autopilot, but until then, they should keep having the driver jump through a few hoops to help remind them it’s not complete.
- nikofeyn 8y agothat style of feature rollout works in a mobile app, but does it work in a car?
- extrapickles 8y agoFor the most part, yes, as most of the systems on a car are not safety critical (eg: someone dies if it fails). I would not like it if they did the same for the brakes on their cars or when they go full level 4. Autopilot as it stands is on the blurry line between the two sides. Just changing the name I don’t think will fix people’s behavior. It’s hard to get the point across that if you completely rely on autopilot/supercruse you will die and endanger everyone else without sounding like your full of FUD. There is a small subset of the population that will always think ‘I turned it on and it didn’t immediately kill me, so it must work perfectly in all situations’. As an example, just look at the number of videos of people ghost riding, where they assume that if they can take their hands of the wheel for a few seconds, they can also climb onto the roof of thier car and start dancing while its in motion.