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I don't know if that's an interesting data point. Humans are terrible at driving cars. AIs are terrible at driving cars. I'm not sure that Tesla is obviously

I don't know if that's an interesting data point. Humans are terrible at driving cars. AIs are terrible at driving cars. I'm not sure that Tesla is obviously doing a sub-par job here, as it's a challenging problem space. The main effect of the telemetry in self-driving cars is that we can all Monday morning quarterback the exact defect that caused a particular crash. With human drivers, we don't have as much data to get to the root cause. If someone falls asleep at the wheel and drives into a truck, was it their medication? Their sleep schedule? An emotional conversation they just had? The music that the radio station chose to play? A combination of all of those factors? What actions do we take to prevent it from happening again?

falcolas 4y ago
> I don't know if that's an interesting data point. And people are terrible at putting in the wrong coordinates or dosages in medicinal machines. It's as interesting a data point as the Therac. > The main effect of the telemetry in self-driving cars is that we can all Monday morning quarterback the exact defect that caused a particular crash. Unnecessary, and has been unnecessary for almost as long as we've had cars. Investigators (the NTSB) are fantastic at looking at wrecks and determining the underlying cause, even in the absence of the black and red boxes. There's no need for always-on-always-phoning-home telemetry. And this is where I get annoyed - there's no value in companies having that data when their most public use of it is to get popular opinion on their side in a fatal wreck. Seriously, fuck Elon Musk for that horseshit.