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The percentage of drivers who think it's safe to nap is small but nonetheless frightening. What are these people thinking?
I know that the name is a good one, but 'Autopilot' is a troublesome name. I think a better way forward would be to do something fun with the 'Autopilot' name, e.g.: "Zanzibar (formerly known as Autopilot)" Nobody need know what "Zanzibar" actually is other than some place a long way from California. You could easily talk about your Tesla to a non-owner saying 'yeah, it's got Zanzibar...' or to a fellow owner 'did yo…
* now that I look at it again, it is actually more 'auto' than autopilot since they do not require your hands to be on the wheel but they do track your eyes for attention to the road.
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If you don’t know, you’ll learn pretty quickly when you buy one. If you don’t keep your hands on the wheel, it will flash at you, then beep at you, then stop the car. In reality, once you are used to it, it’s actually quite easy to keep a hand on the wheel while using Autopilot.
It's not about how easy it is to put your hand on wheel so that it can detect a bit of force (you can use bottle of water to do that). The difficult part is to stay focused when doing that. If you spent 30 minutes driving to work on a highway, and your car was able to drive itself every day for 2 months, how likely are you to take any reasonable action on 3rd month when something unexpecting happens?
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If you don’t know, you’ll learn pretty quickly when you buy one. If you don’t keep your hands on the wheel, it will flash at you, then beep at you, then stop the car. In reality, once you are used to it, it’s actually quite easy to keep a hand on the wheel while using Autopilot.
It's not about how easy it is to put your hand on wheel so that it can detect a bit of force (you can use bottle of water to do that). The difficult part is to stay focused when doing that. If you spent 30 minutes driving to work on a highway, and your car was able to drive itself every day for 2 months, how likely are you to take any reasonable action on 3rd month when something unexpecting happens?
I know that the name is a good one, but 'Autopilot' is a troublesome name. I think a better way forward would be to do something fun with the 'Autopilot' name, e.g.: "Zanzibar (formerly known as Autopilot)" Nobody need know what "Zanzibar" actually is other than some place a long way from California. You could easily talk about your Tesla to a non-owner saying 'yeah, it's got Zanzibar...' or to a fellow owner 'did yo…
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> In reality, once you are used to it, it’s actually quite easy to keep a hand on the wheel while using Autopilot. ...while you do something other than pay attention. Like take a nap or watch a movie (just search YouTube for Tesla nap).
I drive on AutoPilot every day. The shit I see other drivers doing on the highway blows my mind. Yesterday a guy was trimming his toes. Bare foot up on the dash and just going at it. Can’t. Unsee. Approximately half of drivers are holding a cellphone on their ear, or yawning with a look of utter exhaustion on their face, occasionally rocking out to some great tunes, which is fun when they catch you watching. None of…
So I take it it's NOT okay to take your hands off the wheel with Tesla Autopilot? I am not familiar with the technology. The Tesla page on it ( https://www.tesla.com/autopilot ) takes a while to get to describing what it does , but then says, among other things: > Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane. And: > With the new Tesla Vision cameras, sensors and computing po…
As a regular AutoPilot user, it does require active supervision. You need to be looking out the window as it drives you down the highway. It detects minute levels of torque on the wheel, so resting a hand in the wheel is enough to keep it happy. If it doesn’t detect any torque on the wheel it prompts you, and you can touch the wheel or move one of the scrollwheels to let it know you’re paying attention. > In general,…
I havent tried tesla autopilot yet so I don’t know how much easier it makes driving, but if steering[1] keeps you from doing these things ... should you be on the road at all? If you’re too tired to both steer and maintain situational awareness you should probably take a rest :/
[1] steering, more like keeping the wheel steady on the freeway. Afaik Tesla can’t autopilot on the twisties yet anyway
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But that's their full-self driving software that hasn't been released yet.
That's a strange claim without any evidence to back it up. It's the first video on their "Autopilot" page. There's absolutely no mention of features that don't exist yet in the video. You have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page for any mention of full self-driving. I'd believe your claim if the video was under the headline of "Full Self-driving", but it isn't.
When you pull up the video in vimeo, the title is
"Autopilot Full Self-Driving Hardware (Neighborhood Short)"
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Every single automaker demos their lane-keeping technology with hands off the wheel.
Show me.