Tesla ‘on Autopilot’ slams into parked fire truck on freeway

Post by lakisy » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 1:27 AM UTC

Post by aphextron » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #2

I wonder if it is imprudent to create too many vehicles that have partial self-driving capability before we have ones that can do 100% of it. Instead of to the point where you can take your attention away from the road, but not to the point where it can reliably avoid accidents on your behalf. Too many people aren't wise enough to use the partial autonomous technology without abusing it.

Post by cypherpunks01 » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC

c0nducktr wrote: post #6

rootusrootus wrote: post #2

I wonder if it is imprudent to create too many vehicles that have partial self-driving capability before we have ones that can do 100% of it. Instead of to the point where you can take your attention away from the road, but not to the point where it can reliably avoid accidents on your behalf. Too many people aren't wise enough to use the partial autonomous technology without abusing it.

Maybe they could take some ideas from the rail industry, which have been dealing with this issue for quite some time now. Engineers are required to to make some kind of input to verify that they're still alert, or the train stops[1] if they haven't done anything in X seconds. Obviously you wouldn't want the car to just stop in the middle of the road, but there could be something like that designed. [1] https://www.qu…

Post by JustSomeNobody » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #5

Seems fairly impressive that nobody was killed. Will this turn out to be another "brightly lit sky" autopilot bug, like the 2016 semi truck incident? https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss "Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied"