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There have been a total of 9 Autopilot deaths since the system was introduced in 2015. That's with 1 million+ cars on the road with Autopilot and billions of mi

There have been a total of 9 Autopilot deaths since the system was introduced in 2015. That's with 1 million+ cars on the road with Autopilot and billions of miles. 9 is a very small number. And in pretty much every case the driver was found to be at fault.

adrr 5y ago
Autopilot is just adaptive cruise control and lane centering. Almost every car manufacturer has these as options.
- ffggvv 5y ago
  do other manufactures call it full self driving and let you easily trick it while you sleep in the back seat?
- minhazm 5y ago
  Everyone says this but it’s not actually true in practice. Most of the other manufacturers systems are meant more as an emergency type feature rather than convenience. For example the Subaru system when it comes to a stop in traffic requires you to hit the accelerator to tell the car to start going again. Other systems have similar issues with usability that actually make it such that most people with the cars don’t use these features at all.
  - llukas 5y ago
    > For example the Subaru system when it comes to a stop in traffic requires you to hit the accelerator to tell the car to start going again No it doesn't
    - nradov 5y ago
      I think that feature was only just added to 2021 model year Subarus. I have a 2019 and after coming to a complete stop it definitely requires the driver to press the accelerator to start moving again.
  - adrr 5y ago
    Subaru has the traffic jam assist on their adaptive cruise control. Traffic jam assist means it will handle stop and go traffic without input from the driver. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55587/dot_55587_DS1.pdf https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55587/dot_55587_DS1.pdf
powerbroker 5y ago
Autopilot is generally only operated in fair-weather and good visibility. Sensible drivers, under other conditions, would not handover responsibility to the machine. In other words, the driver chooses to give the cars the 'cakewalk'. In addition, the Autopilot has a redundant backup -- namely the human operator. There could be thousands of unreported crashes/deaths but for the intervention of the human operator. Accordingly, dividing 9 by 'billions and billions' is not directly attributable to the skills of the Autopilot.

adrr 5y ago

Autopilot is just adaptive cruise control and lane centering. Almost every car manufacturer has these as options.

ffggvv 5y ago
do other manufactures call it full self driving and let you easily trick it while you sleep in the back seat?
minhazm 5y ago
Everyone says this but it’s not actually true in practice. Most of the other manufacturers systems are meant more as an emergency type feature rather than convenience. For example the Subaru system when it comes to a stop in traffic requires you to hit the accelerator to tell the car to start going again. Other systems have similar issues with usability that actually make it such that most people with the cars don’t use these features at all.
- llukas 5y ago
  > For example the Subaru system when it comes to a stop in traffic requires you to hit the accelerator to tell the car to start going again No it doesn't
  - nradov 5y ago
    I think that feature was only just added to 2021 model year Subarus. I have a 2019 and after coming to a complete stop it definitely requires the driver to press the accelerator to start moving again.
- adrr 5y ago
  Subaru has the traffic jam assist on their adaptive cruise control. Traffic jam assist means it will handle stop and go traffic without input from the driver. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55587/dot_55587_DS1.pdf https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55587/dot_55587_DS1.pdf

powerbroker 5y ago

Autopilot is generally only operated in fair-weather and good visibility. Sensible drivers, under other conditions, would not handover responsibility to the machine. In other words, the driver chooses to give the cars the 'cakewalk'. In addition, the Autopilot has a redundant backup -- namely the human operator. There could be thousands of unreported crashes/deaths but for the intervention of the human operator. Accordingly, dividing 9 by 'billions and billions' is not directly attributable to the skills of the Autopilot.