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Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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> 12 crashes into vehicles with flashing lights on them doesn't sound like great success from Autopilot, gonna be honest. I'm sorry, but how can you form an opinion so quickly? 12 crashes out of what? Any number? 12 crashes out of 10000000 scenarios sound like a pretty good record, while 12 crashes out of 15 scenarios indeed doesn't sound like a great success. But what information do you have that the rest of us does…

I still remember the days when the SciFi of the day sold robotic drivers as "they don't get tired, they don't make mistakes, they are relentless in their pursuit". Instead of that, we got robots that are apparently unable to avoid crashing into large vehicles with flashing lights. Sometimes. As usual, the future never ceases to disappoint me.

Well if you're basing your expectations of reality on SciFi books than I expect you will be dissapointed quite often.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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> The safety agency informed Tesla weeks ago that it was looking into the spate of crashes in which Tesla vehicles operating on Autopilot failed to detect stopped emergency vehicles with flashing lights. The regulator originally said it was looking into 11 such crashes. A 12th occurred on Saturday, when a Model 3 hit a police cruiser that had stopped behind a car that had broken down on an interstate in Orlando, Fla.…

The driver is responsible for stopping the car. You literally agree to it when you enable AP. People are too comfortable and not paying attention.

You have no telemetry and no idea what actually happened, car might have veered without enough warning. Which is the whole point of having an investigation, really.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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post #21

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I still remember the days when the SciFi of the day sold robotic drivers as "they don't get tired, they don't make mistakes, they are relentless in their pursuit". Instead of that, we got robots that are apparently unable to avoid crashing into large vehicles with flashing lights. Sometimes. As usual, the future never ceases to disappoint me.

Well if you're basing your expectations of reality on SciFi books than I expect you will be dissapointed quite often.

There's always dystopian scifi as well.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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The driver is responsible for stopping the car. You literally agree to it when you enable AP. People are too comfortable and not paying attention.

> The driver is responsible for stopping the car. You literally agree to it when you enable AP. People are too comfortable and not paying attention. Autopilot encourages people to not pay as much attention while driving, until a critical situation comes up at which point they're expected to be fully in control. That's a design flaw that isn't fixed with a liability shifting "Agree" button.

It will nag you every 17 seconds (if not attentive/holding the wheel with a torque) and abort auto pilot completely if you do not comply.

If you do this three times in a drive you have to power off and on the car again to be able to use autopilot again.

I've done maybe 40.000 km on autopilot and it's very aggressive compared to my other car (ioniq electric) when it comes to attention.

The fact that some people purposely defeat this system with weights on the wheel is another matter.

But saying that tesla encourages you to not paying attention is not correct.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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> The regulator originally said it was looking into 11 such crashes. A 12th occurred on Saturday But there are 4500 crashes every year, and that's only including ambulances ( https://www.ems.gov/pdf/GroundAmbulanceCrashesPresentation.p... pg 22). So why is Tesla being investigated for being involved in 0.25% of these crashes when they made up 3% of car sales in 2020? Also, radar ignores stationary objects on any car.…

these are 12 crashes into stationary emergency vehicles, whereas your figure is almost certainly mostly driving ambulances.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

#27

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> 12 crashes into vehicles with flashing lights on them doesn't sound like great success from Autopilot, gonna be honest. I'm sorry, but how can you form an opinion so quickly? 12 crashes out of what? Any number? 12 crashes out of 10000000 scenarios sound like a pretty good record, while 12 crashes out of 15 scenarios indeed doesn't sound like a great success. But what information do you have that the rest of us does…

I still remember the days when the SciFi of the day sold robotic drivers as "they don't get tired, they don't make mistakes, they are relentless in their pursuit". Instead of that, we got robots that are apparently unable to avoid crashing into large vehicles with flashing lights. Sometimes. As usual, the future never ceases to disappoint me.

Maybe we just haven't reached that future yet.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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Let's ignore the larger point (which is that this is just one of a million possible edge cases where autopilot could systematically fail), I could absolutely see Tesla just bodging in a "If you see emergency vehicle lights flashing disengage" - it'd perfectly reasonable to say that you shouldn't be using autopilot in that situation because you should be paying attention and ready to react to the emergency vehicle.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 12 crashes into vehicles with flashing lights on them doesn't sound like great success from Autopilot, gonna be honest. I'm sorry, but how can you form an opinion so quickly? 12 crashes out of what? Any number? 12 crashes out of 10000000 scenarios sound like a pretty good record, while 12 crashes out of 15 scenarios indeed doesn't sound like a great success. But what information do you have that the rest of us does…

I still remember the days when the SciFi of the day sold robotic drivers as "they don't get tired, they don't make mistakes, they are relentless in their pursuit". Instead of that, we got robots that are apparently unable to avoid crashing into large vehicles with flashing lights. Sometimes. As usual, the future never ceases to disappoint me.

Ah yes the 1960s. Where politics and economics were also utopian and dishonest. When your average American job could impossibly support a family of 4. 16 year olds drove dodge chargers and the economy was so strong from all of the various nefarious engineering that you could buy products that were made to last 50 years.

Re: Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The driver is responsible for stopping the car. You literally agree to it when you enable AP. People are too comfortable and not paying attention. Autopilot encourages people to not pay as much attention while driving, until a critical situation comes up at which point they're expected to be fully in control. That's a design flaw that isn't fixed with a liability shifting "Agree" button.

It will nag you every 17 seconds (if not attentive/holding the wheel with a torque) and abort auto pilot completely if you do not comply. If you do this three times in a drive you have to power off and on the car again to be able to use autopilot again. I've done maybe 40.000 km on autopilot and it's very aggressive compared to my other car (ioniq electric) when it comes to attention. The fact that some people purpos…

To be fair, the person you are responding to may not like those other systems either.

All the articles with industry analysts insisting that other driver monitoring systems are nearly perfect have sometimes blinded me to that fact.

A lot of people don't like any of these systems for a lot of the same reasons that people didn't like basic cruise control in the early days.

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