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I feel that an engineer in almost any field should understand failsafe vs fail-deadly. Tesla's autopilot is definitely not a failsafe system. While this is som

• jacobush 7y ago
  Or if Tesla had
  • denkmoon 7y ago
    Nobody at Tesla claims that this is a failsafe system. In fact, they specifically tell you to be ready to take over at any time. That is not a system I would rely upon, personally. Are companies bound to only selling failsafe products? Of course not, we'd never get anything done. I do find it somewhat immoral that Tesla are using their customers as beta testers for this, but nobody has been forced into this. Nobody is forced to use Autopilot.
    • jacobush 7y ago
      I think something about responsibility changes at scale. If a Tesla was a bespoke machine, I'd have no issues. But they know that if they position a feature and posture just-so-and-so, a certain fraction of their customers will get it "the wrong way". What did they do to alleviate this? Nothing, in my not so humble opinion.
    • bagacrap 7y ago
      In California every building has a sign affixed that warns of carcinogens within, does that mean you never go indoors? No, it means you learn to ignore safety warnings.
  • xvector 7y ago
    This is the real problem. Tesla had been aware of the "crashing into barriers" issue for a long time.