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I’m sorry, but your statement in this article is just wrong. Tesla autopilot has killed people when it’s malfunctioned, thereby making it significantly more uns

I’m sorry, but your statement in this article is just wrong. Tesla autopilot has killed people when it’s malfunctioned, thereby making it significantly more unsafe (in the eyes of any sane person) than Waymo’s AV (which has not killed anyone to my knowledge). And the title is quite poor as well—it is in fact Tesla who’s gambling lives by aggressively rolling out their self-driving capabilities before they’re fully baked (and having paying customers bet test them), not Waymo (who runs very limited demos in very controlled conditions).

haberman 6y ago
There is also a separate article from this site that speculates that Tesla's easily observable quality problems with Autopilot are actually the result of Tesla intentionally hobbling it so drivers don't become complacent: https://jperla.medium.com/why-tesla-autopilot-ought-to-be-awful-until-its-perfect-8fb0b0764ef8 https://jperla.medium.com/why-tesla-autopilot-ought-to-be-aw... The article admits it has no evidence for this speculation ("Is Tesla doing this? Perhap not.") but at other points assumes it is true ("This is the Safety Paradox. Tesla cannot launch its safest, newest version of the algorithm for every driving mile because that would, paradoxically, cause more accidents since the safest, newest software would be above the L3 Barrier.") It then makes the further unsupported assertion that you can measure the extent to which Tesla has "perfected" its self-driving capability by measuring the rate of Tesla accidents that occur when Autopilot is not enabled, theorizing that this is the only mode where Tesla has not hobbled its safety features. In this mode, the article theorizes, the full power of Tesla's self-driving technology goes to "correct for human driving, as if one has a virtual bumper car, protecting and cocooning the driver." In general the site seems quite pro-Tesla and anti-Waymo. Disclosure: I work for Google but also own a Tesla.

haberman 6y ago

There is also a separate article from this site that speculates that Tesla's easily observable quality problems with Autopilot are actually the result of Tesla intentionally hobbling it so drivers don't become complacent: https://jperla.medium.com/why-tesla-autopilot-ought-to-be-awful-until-its-perfect-8fb0b0764ef8 https://jperla.medium.com/why-tesla-autopilot-ought-to-be-aw... The article admits it has no evidence for this speculation ("Is Tesla doing this? Perhap not.") but at other points assumes it is true ("This is the Safety Paradox. Tesla cannot launch its safest, newest version of the algorithm for every driving mile because that would, paradoxically, cause more accidents since the safest, newest software would be above the L3 Barrier.") It then makes the further unsupported assertion that you can measure the extent to which Tesla has "perfected" its self-driving capability by measuring the rate of Tesla accidents that occur when Autopilot is not enabled, theorizing that this is the only mode where Tesla has not hobbled its safety features. In this mode, the article theorizes, the full power of Tesla's self-driving technology goes to "correct for human driving, as if one has a virtual bumper car, protecting and cocooning the driver." In general the site seems quite pro-Tesla and anti-Waymo. Disclosure: I work for Google but also own a Tesla.