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Agreed. Even if they somehow had autopilot enabled, they defeated multiple safety measure to do it like the steering wheel weight and sitting on the buckled sea

• ajross 5y ago
  Right, but I think it's important to note the conflation of arguments here. If autopilot had been successfully engaged, and the only thing these drivers did wrong was to sit in the wrong seats while the car made all the decisions, then I think it would be very reasonable to view that as an autopilot failure and something that needs to be fixed. The car clearly would be guilty of trying to drive them into a tree at high speed. That said, what seems much more likely here is that they were engaged in some kind of manual work to get the car to accelerate ludicrously. And that's not a situation against which the autopilot should be reasonably expected to protect against.
  • brianwawok 5y ago
    At a minimum, to drive with AP from the back seat, you would need to a) Plug in a seat belt defeater, or plug in the seat belt after you hop out. b) Hang a weight off the steering wheel so it feels torque. At some point, it's hard to ban people being stupid. You can buy a woodchipper and take the guard off and shove your arm in, do we need to ban woodchippers? Or if we build something with layers of guards and safeties.. at some point you the user are responsible for what happens when you bypass them?