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• Rajkumar doesn’t live in Cali obviously (Score:1)

  by Khyber ( 864651 ) writes:

  “No normal human being would not slow down in an exit lane”

  Not only do they SPEED UP in exit lanes here in California to try to beat the light, they’ll also go slow in the acceleration lane when getting on the freeway, cross over onto the shoulder and treat it as a right turn lane, and a lot of other asinine and dangerous shit.

  Totally ignorant of human selfishness, I see.

  • • Re: Republicans doesn’t live in USA obviously (Score:2)

      by saloomy ( 2817221 ) writes:

      Retarded unrelated comment.

      Tesla’s. Autopilot system isn’t perfect, it never will be. But, statistically it is safer than driving alone. The data shows this. Tesla’s can recognize red lights if they have the V3 computer, but do not stop yet. They alert the driver and say “hey, we are about to cross a red light”. Same thing with stop signs. Why Tesla doesn’t apply the breaks yet? Not sure. It’s not like they have stimulus people working on the problem. I’ve argued before that there are going to be deaths.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by reboot246 ( 623534 ) writes:

      “brainpower” and “treat it as theres”

      So much for your brain power.

      Here in Iraq? Is that where you are? That explains a lot.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Gavagai80 ( 1275204 ) writes:

    More importantly, he simply doesn’t know whether autopilot was on. Instead of waiting to find out from the people who can and do check such things, he makes up an answer. The media writes about the made up answer, and consumers eagerly lap it up, spreading ignorance far and wide.
• One thing autonomous cars will never learn (Score:2)

  by Dirk Becher ( 1061828 ) writes:

  When to ignore the rules.

  • Re: One thing autonomous cars will never learn (Score:2)

    by saloomy ( 2817221 ) writes:

    That’s not true. The road rules are not hard set in the cars. You can speed while in autopilot for example.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Dirk Becher ( 1061828 ) writes:

      Then that’s you ignoring the rules.
• How about we wait for some evidence? (Score:1)

  by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes:

  “The driver police that the car was operating on Autopilot” – yeah, drivers have never tried to lie to police to get out of trouble before.

  Raj Rajkumar said “it’s likely”… Authorities “have yet to determine” …

  I can certainly believe there could be some glaring issues with Tesla’s Autopilot. But good grief, how about we wait to see if these vehicles were even *in* that mode before we start debating this?
• • Re: (Score:3)

    by Known Nutter ( 988758 ) writes:

    You seem to be conveniently ignoring the third case, where the driver stated to police that the car was in autopilot.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by OzPeter ( 195038 ) writes:

      You seem to be conveniently ignoring the third case, where the driver stated to police that the car was in autopilot.

      [Area man] yes officer, I was not in control of the car when it struck you, it’s all Elons fault. I am totally absolved of all blame!

      [Officer] How convenient.
  • Re: (Score:3)

    by iggymanz ( 596061 ) writes:

    wrong, Tesla shill-boy

    autopilot needs to be banned, it’s killing people with stupid choices

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nbvb ( 32836 ) writes:

      Actually, I think drivers need to be banned. They make MUCH stupider choices.

      Autopilot’s never stumbled out of a bar after drinking a fifth of vodka and gotten behind the wheel.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by 4wdloop ( 1031398 ) writes:

    But…It’s not cars killing people, it’s people killing people in these reports? And looks like in conditions one would not use or could not use the autopilot anyway.

    I get the point that possibly statistically Tesla on autopilot may be safer then human driven cars, but it still feels different. What is these Tesla accidents were caused by say a wheel falling off?
• Did he blame it on MCAS? (Score:2)

  by drainbramage ( 588291 ) writes:

  No not the Boeing MCAS, I think he’s blaming it on the “My Car Ain’t Safe” system.
• Yes a normal human would go fast in an exit lane (Score:2)

  by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) writes:

  No normal human being would not slow down in an exit lane,

  This is simply not true. You see people exiting a freeway, not slowing down at all until they are close to a light.

  Or what if they were drunk and trying to run a light that was turning red at the end of the exit ramp? Then I could easily see them *accelerating* in an exit lane, misjudging speed and ramming the car into something. That kind of thing happens all the time. That’s one of the drawbacks of a car with really good performance, it’s very

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