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The incident in northern California marked the latest mishap blamed on the electric vehicle company's Autopilot tech

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Was the driver asleep or something? The car drove quite a bit on the tracks... sure, blame Tesla all you want (and rightly so), but you can't really claim today that the car has "autopilot" unless you're hunting for a lawsuit. So what was the driver doing?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

That's what I was thinking, your car starts doing something fucking stupid and you just let it?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Elon take the wheel

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well what's the point of self driving if you can't have a wank on the drive home?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I can tell you wank with your eyes closed :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Delicately put. But essentially that's why self-driving cars are not really seen outside of Tesla. Unless the technology is basically perfect there's essentially no point to it.

Tesla have it because they use the public as guinea pigs.

I wouldn't mind if they all had to go to some dedicated test track to try it out and train it and outside of those environments it wouldn't turn on. If they want to risk their lives that's their prerogative, my problem is that it might drive into me one day and I don't own a Tesla so why should I take that risk?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's rather reminiscent of the old days of GPS, when people would follow it to the letter, and drive into rivers, go the wrong way up a one-way street, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There was a legal case recently where somebody drove off a bridge that wasn't there. At some point you have to take personal responsibility since the outcomes will be extremely personal.

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