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Why is everyone freaking out over a beta test with a driver at the wheel ready to take over immediately? It's a beta test, finding bugs is kind of the point. O

• woofyman 5y ago
  Because it’s a 5000 lb weapon and the pedestrians didn’t consent to the beta.
  • thatswrong0 5y ago
    I see people making similar mistakes pretty frequently. Not trying to excuse beta testing this software with live pedestrians (like, why on earth did it not signal? What was it's planning software doing?), but humans make this mistake too
  • ahahahahah 5y ago
    In addition, and unlike every other serious company in the space, Tesla is using random untrained drivers for testing this crap.
• colechristensen 5y ago
  Because a car is a life critical system and nobody should want an automated vehicle, even if controlled by a human, to "accidentally" try to run over some humans. I doubt the pilot's ability to stop all missteps before an injury. The car should be much safer before it goes on the road, regardless of test status. This was a near miss and should be taken extremely seriously by highway safety regulators. >Or have we truly reached the point now where we expect "stable" software to be of the same calibre as beta software so nobody makes a distinction between the two? I expect every vehicle on the road to meet a safety standard. I do not accept "beta software" tests on public roads if this is the kind of mistake they can make.