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The standard that the media holds Tesla to will still be a picnic compared to how the media will treat the first self-driving cars. Far safer than human-driven
by mortenjorck 13y ago
The standard that the media holds Tesla to will still be a picnic compared to how the media will treat the first self-driving cars. Far safer than human-driven will not be nearly enough; the first high-profile accident will be wall-to-wall "Are Self-Driving Cars Really Ready For Prime Time?"
- simonh 13y agoEven Betteridge's law occasionally has it's exceptions.
- baddox 13y agoDoes Betteridge's law have exceptions?
- nsxwolf 13y agoNo.
- tlrobinson 13y agoI love the meta-ness of this exchange. I assume it was intentional.
- hahahafail 13y agoBreaking News: "Vehicle computer records indicate that the driver took control of the vehicle three minutes prior to the accident."
- brianbreslin 13y agoI would bet the first self-driving car accident involves a human driven car as well. Even if it is human error, the media will say the self driving car should have avoided them or something like that.
- WalterSear 13y agoIt already has. http://mashable.com/2010/10/09/google-cars/ http://mashable.com/2010/10/09/google-cars/
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoTesla was handled with kid gloves compared to Toyota. Remember the unintended acceleration crock?
- shuffle2 13y agoYou mean this one? http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2014/02/are-we-shooting-ourselves-in-the-foot-with-stack-overflow/ http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2014/02/are-we-shooting...
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoYes, this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_recalls#NHTSA_and_NASA_Investigation_Verdict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_...
- jamesaguilar 13y agoUm, it wasn't crock. They recently settled a huge lawsuit and criminal investigation with the US government to the tune of $1.2B. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/03/19/toyota-settlement-unintended-acceleration/6595345/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/03/19/toyota-s...
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoIt was a crock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_recalls#NHTSA_and_NASA_Investigation_Verdict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_...
- Crito 13y agoThe Toyota Acceleration issue ranks up there with the McDonald's Coffee lawsuit as one of the most doubly misunderstood corporate events in recent history. Popular belief has there being an acceleration problem with Toyota cars. Slightly less popular is the correction that in fact it was all just senile old people and floor mats, nothing to do with the computers. Far less common is the correction that there were in fact technical problems with the cars. Similarly popular belief has the McDonald's coffee lawsuit being absurd, because "everyone knows that coffee is hot and how much damage can it cause anyway?". Slightly less popular is the correction that the burns were in fact horrific and the coffee was stunningly hot, far hotter than industry standard. Far less common is the further correction that in fact McDonald's coffee was being served at an industry standard temperature, where "industry standard" is defined as how other companies also serve their coffee (Starbucks coffee is generally just as hot, and many companies serve hotter coffee than McDonald's was serving.) In fact, since the lawsuit, McDonald's hasn't reduced the temperature that they serve their coffee at. The only change that McDonald's has made since the lawsuit is adding warning labels, the coffee you buy there today can be just as hot as the coffee that burned Stella Liebeck... don't spill it on yourself! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants#Coffee_temperature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restauran...)