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To add, even if the fatality numbers are small, accelerating into a person is a pretty outrageous failure mode.
by outer_web 1y ago
To add, even if the fatality numbers are small, accelerating into a person is a pretty outrageous failure mode.
- BeetleB 1y agoMy Subaru has done this many times, and with regular cars, not motorcycles.
- bink 1y agoYour car has accelerated into a person many times and yet you continue to use this feature/car?
- BeetleB 1y agoFind me a car with autonomous capabilities (e.g. adaptive cruise control) that never does it, and I'll consider it. As all car manufacturers point out: A prerequisite to enabling any safety mechanism is that the driver overrides when it fails. This includes blind spot detection, lane drift detection/correction, and adaptive cruise control. It is understood that when I enable it, I'm responsible for its behavior given that I can override it. But that's all an aside. The point isn't that I continue to drive it, but that this is not something special about Teslas.
- outer_web 1y agoWe are probably in the weeds here but there is a difference between notification safety mechanisms and ones that take action. And to get really pedantic, emergency breaking doesn't permit user override (either functionally or simply because of how abrupt it is). And autonomy features are a different domain altogether.