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One thing I wonder about the safety of Autopilot (because I have never used a Tesla). Doesn't the Autopilot sometimes just give up in difficult situations? Eit
by GuB-42 5y ago
One thing I wonder about the safety of Autopilot (because I have never used a Tesla).
Doesn't the Autopilot sometimes just give up in difficult situations? Either explicitly, by stopping behind parked cars or things like that, or worse, by behaving so badly that the driver has to take back control for his own safety.
The worst case would be: autopilot doesn't see an obstacle, driver sees it at the last moment, takes back control, but it is too late, and crash. Is it an autopilot crash or a human crash?
Or: there is some road work, the autopilot cannot maneuver around it and gives up, the driver takes back control and crashes. It is clearly a human error, but still, the autopilot leave the short part where accidents are the most likely to happen the driver.
It things like that happen, it is almost as if the autopilot is to be used only where accidents are the least likely to happen, which can obviously explain why people on autopilot have less accidents.
- olliej 5y agoYes, it does, which is also a great way to avoid "being active in a crash". The model of "a human must being completely focused 100% of the time while also not doing anything to control the vehicle and ready to take control" is not a reasonable model, and is why all the "partial" self-driving rules are nonsense. It also helps statistics both directly: crashes are more likely in the snow and rain, but Teslas don't do self driving in those conditions (that's one of the things this paper addresses). Tesla has in numerous cases blamed the driver for not taking control of the unsafe "self driving" when crashes occurred, how many near misses have occurred due to drivers intervening? Airlines and aircraft manufacturers are required to report events where a pilot how to take over to prevent an accident but Tesla and co don't