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Ive a Jeep Grand Cherokee. It has the front sensing collision detector and auto braking. It may have hit the brakes 1 time that I wasnt paying attention and 9,9
by S_A_P 5y ago
Ive a Jeep Grand Cherokee. It has the front sensing collision detector and auto braking. It may have hit the brakes 1 time that I wasnt paying attention and 9,999,999 times when there was nothing in front of me. I disable it and thus far have avoided crashing. The point is that driver assist systems are only assist and you have to pay attention when you drive. Ive said this here before, Autopilot is a terrible misnomer. It seems to sit squarely in the valley of being good enough to 'trust' but not good enough for real world use. If I were in charge of the world, it would be rebranded immediately.
- sliken 5y agoDunno, autopilot (at least originally) was just a stupid switch on a plane that would try to hold altitude and speed. It wouldn't try to avoid objects, couldn't take off, couldn't land. Very similar to Tesla's auto pilot, that can't manage your driveway, random surface streets, but can mostly (but not completely) handle highways.
- Diederich 5y agoGood perspective. I think, as you noted, that 'autopilot' is probably fine, but 'full self driving' is actively misleading. Note that I use FSD for 90+% of all of my driving, and I think I'm safer because of it, but it has to be used with understanding and care. The very name 'full self driving' is something it might be some day, but it's nowhere close to that now.