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From my understanding, if someone were to do this IRL, and the autopilot disengaged in the middle of the ride, then the occupants are fucked because there is no
by poundofshrimp 5y ago
From my understanding, if someone were to do this IRL, and the autopilot disengaged in the middle of the ride, then the occupants are fucked because there is no way to force the autopilot to engage. I wonder if this has caused crashes already.
- LorenPechtel 5y agoI'm thinking that might be what happened here. Tesla is saying the autopilot wasn't engaged and couldn't be due to a lack of painted lines. Ok, they defeat the sensors, take it out for a drive, they hit an area with no lane markings and the autopilot disengages and they can't recover.
- jobigoud 5y agoThis is an interesting conundrum. If it's currently on autopilot (for whatever reason) and the requirements aren't met anymore it should probably handle it gracefully and wind it down progressively until a human driver takes over, rather than shutdown assuming someone is at the wheel. Auto pilot in adverse conditions is better than no pilot. In some multicopters when you loose signal it doesn't fall off the sky, instead it hovers gently down until it touches down on the ground, (or tries to fly back home which can cause a host of other problems)
- LorenPechtel 5y agoIn that case it has a safe failure mode. In the Tesla case it doesn't--it's relying on those lines for guidance. The car suddenly has no idea where the road is. The choices are basically turn off, or turn off and engage the brakes. With a human able to take control the former is the better choice.