I wanted to see what it would do to my gas mileage, so I drove home today at exactly the speed limit. It was weird. And pissed people off (even though it’s a 6-lane interstate and I was in the right lane the entire way).

It’s an official report from a government agency. They probably don’t want to use a branding/marketing term to describe a collision. These features added together are what amounts to AutoPilot. Though I’ve never driven a Tesla, so I could be wrong.

Nope. I believe it’s a totally fair criticism of the driver.

That’s actually a lot harder than you would think. The auto pilot would both need to know the normal speed limit, and the speed limit of any construction zones that pop up. Construction limit vary depending on what going on, and there is not universal system to (yet) update cars or GPS on the current speed limit these…

Interesting, I see ford uses ocr and I guess since the fonts are normalized on signs it can be tuned to be quite accurate. Interesting to see how it handles local kids spray painting 55 to say 88.

Those two features can be optionally activated as cruise control or AutoPilot, which includes those two features among others. Going off the wording, and the fact that they don’t mention Autopilot or any of the other features save cruise control and lane assist [cruise control part 2], we can sit here and make…

Nibbles, I believe that’s the NHTSA explaining all the features of AutoPilot separately, vs saying it wasn’t disengaged.

As mentioned, Tesla’s Autopilot monitors the traffic around and will slow down if necessary to keep pace with it, otherwise, like all other kinds of Cruise Control, it will maintain the speed set when the driver enabled cruise control. While it may warn drivers if it detects a speed limit that is lower than it’s…

Except that when full autonomy is achieved, speed limits will be obsolete.

Something nobody in this thread mentions:

It was ‘Reasonable and Prudent’ in the late 90's, but they changed that back to standard speed limits in ‘99. Not that it really matters, since nobody goes to Montana.

Side guards are becoming more common (almost standard), but they’re for airflow rather than for safety. Also, I’m guessing we have a lot more older model trailers on the road in the US than Europe (I have no data to back this up other than driving behind some really old equipment on the interstates.) They do seem to…

I'm more concerned the next step beyond that is controlling where your car can go and when. Having some pesky issues with some minorities you don't want people to see treated roughly. Click clack click on a keyboard and no ones rolling by. I know it seems half crazy, but you never know how far people will take…

I thought speed limit in Montana is “Whatever is prudent”?

Highest speed limit in Montana is 80 mph, and Germany is outside the context. The car in the article and my car are both American market cars that are presumed to never be going to Germany when manufactured.

Yes, but tesla’s “Autopilot” is more marketing hype than actual self driving (hence why it’s still in “beta”. If it’s like any other car with adaptive cruise control, you can set how fast you want to go and it will maintain that speed until there’s traffic, which is when it will maintain the speed of traffic until it…

Well, if you ask an unintelligent question, expect to get called out on it. You can tell your car to speed by stepping on the pedal. That is really no different than telling cruise control or autopilot to speed. In the end, it is the driver telling the car to do something that they shouldn’t be doing. If you want…

Why aren’t tractor trailer truck trailers designed like European lory trailers?? The Mansfield Bars need to be much lower on the trailers too. I have seen a few C5 Vetters go right under them. The European ones have a side bar that goes between the trailer wheels and drive wheels. Why isn’t this a requirement in the…

Simple physics says the opposite. Great brakes or not, the distances required to stop most certainly are a factor in many collisions.