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Well we all share the air with aircraft. How would you feel about a pilot “demonstrating” controlled flight into terrain on autopilot? I assure you my Lear’s a

• jjulius 5y ago
  With nary a civilian or other airplane within impact distance, like in the video? Sure, let's do it!
• stjohnswarts 5y ago
  Most of us don't have Lears to test that hypothesis out.
• AniseAbyss 5y ago
  Aviation is severely regulated. After decades of horrendous accidents... Self driving is new and it is painfully obvious the government hasn't figured out how to deal with it yet.
  • juanani 5y ago
• HWR_14 5y ago
  When the risk of an airplane crashing into my car/my bike/me as a pedestrian is 1/1,000,000 as likely as a car collision, we can talk. Meanwhile, if you want to splat into the edge of a mountain, I really have no feelings about it. Or did you mean you would use your Lear's autopilot to try to do some extremely low level flying over a highway?
• FabHK 5y ago
  I think the point you're trying to make (maybe) is: aviation autopilots will also lead to disaster if used improperly, but that doesn't imply that they're bad or deficient technology (but rather that they were used improperly). First, aviation autopilots are a mature, tested, reliable, certified technology and are deployed only under narrow, precisely delineated circumstances by trained professionals (not a beta product tested "in production" by amateurs). Next, though, you imply that the FSD was used somewhat irresponsibly or improperly here. I fail to see that. He used it as it was supposed to, and when he saw that it was swerving into the pylon, he reacted immediately (within the limits of human reaction time), which was insufficient. How was that improper use?