Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
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Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#2Good for the engineers having more ethics than VW, and resigning when they are asked to go farther than the technology allows.
Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#3Typical wsj paywall. Web link no longer seems to get around it, either, unfortunately.
Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#4Paywall bypass: http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/tes...
Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#5FYI I've found a way around the WSJ paywall - copy and paste the title into Facebook and click on that link.
Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#6> In May 2015, Eric Meadows, then a Tesla engineer, engaged Autopilot on a drive in a Model S from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Cruising along Highway 1, the car jerked left toward oncoming traffic. He yelped and steered back on course, according to his account and a video of the incident.
Is this video online?
Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#7Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#8The level-2 driving that Tesla is pushing seems like a worst case scenario to me. Requiring the driver to be awake and alert while not requiring them to actually do anything for long stretches of time is a recipe for disaster.
Neither the driver nor the car manufacturer will have clear responsibility when there is an accident. The driver will blame the system for failing and the manufacturer will blame the driver for not paying sufficient attention. It's lose-lose for everyone. The company, the drivers, the insurance companies, and other people on the road.
Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#9> In May 2015, Eric Meadows, then a Tesla engineer, engaged Autopilot on a drive in a Model S from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Cruising along Highway 1, the car jerked left toward oncoming traffic. He yelped and steered back on course, according to his account and a video of the incident. Is this video online?
> Mr. Meadows said he was later dismissed for what he was told were “performance issues.” Tesla declined to comment on Mr. Meadows but noted that the incident happened months before the release of the technology, giving the company plenty of time to work out problems that had been discovered during test drives.
We used to treat our test pilots with the highest regard. How low have we fallen?
Re: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
#10The level-2 driving that Tesla is pushing seems like a worst case scenario to me. Requiring the driver to be awake and alert while not requiring them to actually do anything for long stretches of time is a recipe for disaster. Neither the driver nor the car manufacturer will have clear responsibility when there is an accident. The driver will blame the system for failing and the manufacturer will blame the driver for…
Unless it works. better than a human. > 90-99% of the time.
Mostly, the drivers, insurance, companies and other people on the road have fewer accidents.