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Tesla calling their driving assistance "autopilot" is a marketing move. I don't see why we should accept their definition. Autopilot to me means that the human
by lolc 7y ago
Tesla calling their driving assistance "autopilot" is a marketing move. I don't see why we should accept their definition. Autopilot to me means that the human pilot can remove attention from immediate steering tasks. This is not true for the Tesla "autopilot".
- close04 7y agoAP is like a student driver. Perfectly safe as long as the instructor is there to take over with very short notice. So saying AP is safe because % crashes in $ millions of miles is pretty irrelevant. AP only drives with supervision and when this is missing it crashes. How many times did the driver have to intervene to avoid the crash? Tesla provides no data about this. But next time you hear “AP is so safe it only crashed 3 times” just remember that student drivers also almost never crash. As long as it needs constant attention, not considering this in the statistics makes them irrelevant.