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Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about the system
- sschueller 7y agoHow many people need to die until Tesla is made accountable for lying to the public about the capability of their auto pilot? Maybe a bus full of dead children?
- ActorNightly 7y agoSeems like tall Semis are an issue for Teslas, one of the crashes a year ago was also a similar scenario. Perhaps they should add more vertical FOV on the sensors?
- eindiran 7y agoHN conversation on this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19932918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19932918
- aeternus 7y agoWe should really be looking at the stats, is this system safer than a human driver? Given the number of reported fatalities reported recently, it may not be.
- hellllllllooo 7y agoImo the cases where autopilot fails should be a subset of where humans fail. If it's failing in places where humans wouldn't then there's an issue.
- LoSboccacc 7y agothe problem with stats is that incident rates bunch together extremely heterogeneous driver, vehicles and driving environments, so for example the "40% safer" figure from the ntsb years ago is extremely misleading since the autopilot has a very limited field of applicability the only way to determine if it's safer is to compare it with actual driving data details between the tesla car fleet within similar condition and I think the only data we can get as outsiders it's "number of death in tesla on highways" and "number of death in tesla on highway with autopilot", but deprived of relative miles driven in each mode information it's going to be quite meaningless, and even with the data at hand it might very well be that the datapoint are too few to reach a significant confidence about the findings.