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So is this actually confusing anyone and causing danger? We can figure it out. One of the following must be true: - It is confusing people, but the tech is ac
by fallingknife 6y ago
So is this actually confusing anyone and causing danger? We can figure it out. One of the following must be true:
- It is confusing people, but the tech is actually pretty much autonomous, so we haven't noticed.
- It is confusing people, and Tesla drivers are dying in crashes at a rate massively in excess of other car manufacturers.
- Everybody knows that you still have to pay attention, and they don't give the car total control.
Option 1 is almost certainly not true since it requires the existence of near perfect self driving tech, which is generally agreed not to exist. Option 2 is definitely not true, because if Tesla drivers were dying at a much greater rate than drivers of other cars, this would be completely obvious and impossible to hide. So that leaves us with option 3, and all the repeated complaining about this is sanctimonious BS.
- atty 6y agoDeath is not the only outcome of a crash. In fact, it’s relatively rare. Further, I’d argue a single death due to confusion of FSD’s capabilities is enough to make the complaining not “sanctimonious BS”, because that one death probably could be avoided by using a name that is more representative of the truth.
- fallingknife 6y agoBut death is a possible outcome of a crash, and an increase in crashes will lead to a corresponding increase in deaths, unless it somehow only prevents serious crashes (in which case, great). Also one death is a dumb threshold for anything.