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If autopilot created a situation in which a crash was inevitable with no warning to the user. E.g. if it suddenly grabbed the steering wheel and swerved right r
by gpm 6y ago
If autopilot created a situation in which a crash was inevitable with no warning to the user. E.g. if it suddenly grabbed the steering wheel and swerved right resulting in the car spinning out in only a few hundred ms for no good reason.
Even if autopilot caused a crash such as above, you still have to run a cost benefit analysis of whether or not it prevented more crashes than it causes. Considering the failure rate of humans it's ok for autopilot to have a non-negligible failure rate, and it doesn't really matter if those failures happen in the same places as the human failures.
- deegles 6y agoWouldn't Tesla say "you should have had your hands on the wheel, therefore it's not Autopilot's fault"?
- gpm 6y agoHands on the steering wheel doesn't mean affirmative control. That's why the example includes putting the car in an unrecoverable scenario faster than an attentive person can react.