So the takeaway is Tesla’s autopilot is about as good as a bunch of the worst drivers out there. Really scraping the barrel for excuses.  

Toyota Apologizes After Pedestrian Grounded to the Ground.

Doing that would make perfect sense, so clearly that is out of the question for Avis.

But it doesn’t necessarily need the driver to take over to gather the data for the logic. The driving logic could just run in the background on a sensor equipped vehicle and compare what it would have done to what the actual driver did. You would probably need to add some parameters to filter out unsafe/junk data…

I live on a Farm, and 90% of the time I am using my pickup is less than 15 MPH on my own property. Constantly dealing with this BS will be enough to make this my last GM truck.

It would be a lot for me with both a garage and a gate across my drive - both manual as I don’t automatic anything. I open the gate, then the garage door, back out the car, close the garage door, back up to the street, close the gate and go. Repeat coming home. Jeeze,

No company has to go through L2 to get to L4 or L5. That’s not how this works.

You know what else would exert force they’re hard mounted to? Wheels.

Just going out to lunch today, I came across three situations where an automated L2 assist would just freeze.

I love that on Jalopnik, we’re all: yeah, yeah, a train smashed a semi trailer and dragged it for miles blah blah, but what about that car in the yard there?

...bad company that is just in it for the money...

In - whoevers - defense. Car vending machines are stupid.

So what happens to the autonomous juggernaut when there’s a major accident on the highway and the cops are directing you off it onto a dirt road detour? How is AI going to respond to hand-signals from some cop standing in the road, and then proceed to navigate a narrow dirt road (with no road markings) for 10 miles?

Man, that was pure 80's directed straight into my veins right there.

Turning ships with the engines is way more fun anyway. 

This would encourage people to by more efficient cars, instead of just cars with bigger batteries. I think they actually added a figure for gallons / 100 miles to the EPA ratings a while back (or at least considered it), but nobody pays attention to it. IMO that makes a lot of sense becuase it better illustrates the…

“On August 15, 1899, a chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant. That may not seem like a big deal...”

That is some solid wrong reasoning right there.

Don’t you mean “rickcursion”.

1) self-driving is pretty good at most things, except edge cases, and 2) almost everything is edge cases.