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At least 14 Teslas have crashed into emergency vehicles while using the system. Seems like quite a lot?

wyldfire 4y ago
It does seem like a lot. But it's also important to consider how many miles were driven by the fleet and how many hams crashed into emergency vehicles over the same amount driven. I'm not a Tesla apologist, I just can't make sense of raw numbers where we would naturally try to make a comparison.
qzw 4y ago
No, you see, there’s no problem here because people would’ve been crashing into things at an even higher rate without Tesla Telepathic Full Self Driving and Penile Embiggening All Natural Herbal Vision AI Sentient System (Beta).
graderjs 4y ago
Maybe the robot thinks: Heck, if I'm gonna crash, may as well crash into the safest place to do it. At least they can rescue me/put out the fire/solve it somehow. Or to take a leaf from the film I, Robot: SPOONER: The truck smashed our cars together... and pushed us into the river. I mean, metal gets pretty pliable at those speeds. She's pinned. I'm pinned. The water's coming in. I'm a cop, so I already know everybody's dead. Just a few more minutes before we figure it out. An NS-4 was passing by... saw the accident and jumped in the water. [flashback] NS-4 ROBOT: You are in danger. SPOONER: Save her! NS-4 ROBOT: You are in danger. SPOONER: Save her! Save the girl! Save her! [realtime] SPOONER: But it didn't. It saved me. CALVIN: The robot's brain is a difference engine. It reads vital signs. It must have calculated... SPOONER: --It did. I was the logical choice. It calculated that I had a 45 percent chance of survival. Sarah only had an 11 percent chance. That was somebody's baby. Eleven percent is more than enough. A human being would have known that. Robots, nothing here. Just lights and clockwork. *Go ahead and you trust them if you want to.*

It does seem like a lot. But it's also important to consider how many miles were driven by the fleet and how many hams crashed into emergency vehicles over the same amount driven. I'm not a Tesla apologist, I just can't make sense of raw numbers where we would naturally try to make a comparison.

qzw 4y ago

No, you see, there’s no problem here because people would’ve been crashing into things at an even higher rate without Tesla Telepathic Full Self Driving and Penile Embiggening All Natural Herbal Vision AI Sentient System (Beta).

graderjs 4y ago

Maybe the robot thinks: Heck, if I'm gonna crash, may as well crash into the safest place to do it. At least they can rescue me/put out the fire/solve it somehow. Or to take a leaf from the film I, Robot: SPOONER: The truck smashed our cars together... and pushed us into the river. I mean, metal gets pretty pliable at those speeds. She's pinned. I'm pinned. The water's coming in. I'm a cop, so I already know everybody's dead. Just a few more minutes before we figure it out. An NS-4 was passing by... saw the accident and jumped in the water. [flashback] NS-4 ROBOT: You are in danger. SPOONER: Save her! NS-4 ROBOT: You are in danger. SPOONER: Save her! Save the girl! Save her! [realtime] SPOONER: But it didn't. It saved me. CALVIN: The robot's brain is a difference engine. It reads vital signs. It must have calculated... SPOONER: --It did. I was the logical choice. It calculated that I had a 45 percent chance of survival. Sarah only had an 11 percent chance. That was somebody's baby. Eleven percent is more than enough. A human being would have known that. Robots, nothing here. Just lights and clockwork. *Go ahead and you trust them if you want to.*