Your points are valid but it regulation won’t be coming because of an effort to correct TM’s failings.

Tesla Motors looking in from the outside does some things wrong or doesn’t do them at all. I don’t know who they are hiring but they keep having huge glaring holes where if they are hiring experienced people, people…

Brake dive will result in bumper mismatch even if they are at the same height nominally. Nose goes down and rear goes up.

One watered down beer doesn’t equate to DUI and neither does typical poor driving. I suffer through a lot of things bicycling and driving but I don’t get the cops involved 99% of the time. The one exception being a driver who intentionally backed into my bicycle. That ended up with me going to court once a month for…

Once upon a time I worked for a company that made a very complex home medical device. This mostly automated device had all sorts of safeties on it so it would not harm the user. It would shut down (if it was severe enough) and call field service regardless. There was one end user who didn’t want the techs in his…

When you don’t have an argument, fling insults. cute.

The attention paid to driving (neglecting external factors) is proportional to the design of the vehicle’s systems. The amount of drinking or texting or similar to reduce attention is entirely external to the vehicle’s design.

“That’s something the engineers should’ve figured out a while ago.”

My guess is they have an issue far back in the design process. A lack of FMEA or doing it in such a way that over-estimates the drivers taking over from the automation reducing the scores.

The problem with applying that “just world” idea to this situation is that some of the same people who blame the driver with Tesla would crucify Ford or GM for selling something that was sub-par. It’s not really that the victim deserved it but their ideas about the corporate entities. Others also feel that drivers…

I am simply pointing out there are conditions where something the size of a semi-tractor-trailer is difficult to see. I’ve encountered it more than once in my life. Dark, unlit road, reflectors only on the side of the trailer, dark colored trailer, usually a flat bed.

Texting and drinking are external to the design of the automobile.

Flatbed trailers are rarely white.

What is with assuming an argument for me in the form of a question? I made no such arguments.

If you designed automatic lights that didn’t work automatically some of the time and required the driver’s attention as if he were driving a car with lights that required the knob was pulled or turned the design should not…

Are you arguing the reptilians and the greys should rule the Earth?

yep. There are ones to reduce drag although I think in the USA there’s often nothing structural behind them to stop a car.

I was giving design advice. Dumbing down systems builds better idiots and that needs to be considered. The customer is always right and he is often a lazy moron.

Blaming the user even if he is one thousand percent at fault generally gets a bad reaction. This is why it doesn’t matter much what the customer did or didn’t…

On a dark enough road with a dark colored truck and trailer, when the side reflectors don’t catch the light they aren’t so easy to pick up. A barely attentive or non-attentive driver of any sort of car could miss one until it was too late if he was moving fast enough and the truck slow enough.

“The primary factor here is that because of the high floor of the trailer”

“think genuinely autonomous cars have extensive potential to solve many problems such as drunk driving and providing freedom of movement to the disabled and elderly.”

“I don’t understand why people are blaming tesla. Autopilot didn’t kill him, his inability to look where he was going did.”

The problem with autonomous technology isn’t the technology it’s the social, political, and economic consequences due to the people who will ultimately control it. The technology itself will work eventually.