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• diggan 3y ago
  > Autopilot - Future of Driving - Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane under your active supervision, assisting with the most burdensome parts of driving. [...] https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/models https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/models Reading this, without any other context or knowledge about their capabilities, it does sound like the car can control itself and pilot itself automatically. The name is disingenuous and misleading, so no wonder people think the car can steer, accelerate and brake by itself even though in cases like this, it did neither.
  • galangalalgol 3y ago
    It can do all of those things though. Usually does. Usually is why you are there. I can't imagine anyone who has even just test driven one doing anything but frantically scanning the roadway while somehow white knuckling with a loose grip. The manual and the somewhat erratic behavior of the 3d model representing what it is aware of are not confidence inspiring. Added since this incident, the driver monitor camera, which uses ir illumination at night, disables autopilot if it decides you aren't looking at the road, has some false positives. The only thing I trust it for is stop and go traffic on a major highway. It does that reliably. I'm still scanning nervously to avoid a low speed collision. I've had it automatically engage brakes once in what it thought was an emergency when cruise control was off. I saw the person cutting me off and was about to brake with plenty of time. My wife agreed with the car...
• fxtentacle 3y ago
  "The car is literally driving itself" as on-screen text in one of the advertisements