Tesla knew Autopilot caused death, but didn’t fix it::Software’s alleged inability to handle cross traffic central to court battle after two road deaths

    • Ocelot@lemmies.world
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      1 year ago

      How is that confusing? If you look at the capabilities an airplane autopilot does, it will maintain altitude and heading and make turns at pre-determined points. Autopilot in an airplane does absolutely zero to avoid other airplanes or obstacles, and no airplane is equipped with any AP system that allows the pilot to leave the cockpit.

      Tesla autopilot maintains speed and distance from the car in front of you and keeps you in your lane. Nothing else. It is a perfect name for the system.

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          1 year ago

          I’d hope they would before willfully getting behind the controls of one to operate it. Regardless of what we call it, these people still would have crashed. They both drove into the side of a semi while sitting in the driver’s seat with their hands on the wheel.

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            1 year ago

            That because tesla induced them to think it was level 4 or 5 while FSD is level 2 (like most Toyotas are ) but with a few extra options.

            And as long as there is a need for a human to endorse responsability, it will remain at level 2.

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              A) Autopilot and the FSD beta are two totally separate systems and FSD wasn’t even available as an option when one of these crashes occurred.

              B) where’s the evidence that these drivers believed they were operating a level 4 or 5 system?

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                1 year ago

                I’ll repeat what others have said: they could have called it “Advanced Autopilot”, “Advanced Driving Assist”, “Magic Drive”, “So Close To Our Goal”, “Monitored Self Driving”, “Assisted Self Driving” is as close as I can get … Anything BUT “Full Self Driving”.