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It's hard to pay proper attention when a nearly-good-enough L2 system fails. They work just well enough so you're not paying attention and then the car hands y

It's hard to pay proper attention when a nearly-good-enough L2 system fails. They work just well enough so you're not paying attention and then the car hands you control without warning. I have the basic autopilot (not the paid FSD) and trust it very little. I love traffic aware cruise control where I'm still steering, but normally don't ever use autopilot. I turned it on briefly today for a km on a long, straight freeway so that I could more safely switch audio sources while on a multi-hour drive. Switched it right back off once I was done fiddling. Google studied driver attention and decided advanced L2 and L3 systems were quite dangerous because drivers simply are not ready to take back over right away when needed. That's why they jumped right to L4.

tuatoru 5y ago
>They work just well enough so you're not paying attention and then the car hands you control without warning. There's a book, Our Robots, Ourselves by David Mindell, which describes the aviation experience with auto-land. Auto-land is no longer used for this reason, and the related one that the automatic system gives up when the situation is bad and you only have seconds to recover, which is when you want the pilot to have been paying attention for quite a while. Planes use pilot assistance (head-up displays of where the plane thinks it's going, and where it thinks it should be going), rather than automatic landing systems these days.