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

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The driver was also not even paying attention to the road so the blame should be on him not the car. People need to learn that Tesla’s version of autopilot has a specific use case and regular streets is not that.

    • Thorny_Thicket
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      1 year ago

      They should really have called it something else than autopilot/FSD. It’s a driver assist and everyone knows this but it’s so easy to dunk on them when it fails because of the name though I’m 100% sure the system tells you to keep your eyes on the road and hands on the steering wheel when you engage it. If you crash a “self driving” car it’s the fault of the driver - not the vehicle.

    • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I agree with you. This is about user error. Unfortunately, people seemed to believe their cars could literally drive themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Tesla is producing advertisement videos that say ‘our cars drive themselves, you don’t need a driver’.