True, and I’m not happy about that trend either. It actually gives me more concern that people are just too trusting of technology.

It’s called reality, when something happens that does not meet your idea of what SHOULD happen then you should react to what IS happening.

The plane isn’t flying itself, there are 2 pilots who are monitoring everything the autopilot is doing and are ready to override it at a moment’s notice. They do not trust it at all and are trained not to.

My rationale is that when I see a truck in front of me I hit the damn brake I don’t just say “Fuck it, I have the right to be here. CHARGE!”

The truck driver likely assumed that the driver of the car could see him and would reduce speed or stop like the other 99.9% of the time. Someone driving a car who sees a semi making a left in front of them knows to slow down. It’s hard to miss seeing a semi making a left turn, unless you’re not paying attention to…

No not at all, it drove right through and kept going, the only thing slowing it down was the force of its top being ripped off by the trailer.

No but this one was completely avoidable if the driver had been paying attention. Defensive driving isn’t about who’s at fault it’s about protecting yourself, it doesn’t matter who has the right of way or who made the mistake, this guy had the ability to avoid the accident but didn’t because he wasn’t paying attention.

No the name is accurate. Pilots don’t just sit back and trust the autopilot to do everything, they are constantly checking what the autopilot is doing or think its doing vs the real world via instruments or visual recognition. They understand that a failure in the autopilot and their lack of focus or attention to…

That’s tough to answer, I think the key was that he wasn’t paying attention to the road and instead trusted the computer to do it for him. Whether he was driving or letting the computer drive the one thing he did not do was pay attention, because if he did he would have applied the brakes himself. That’s the major…

If they’re using a rental fleet and the gas is covered under the agreement then the gas and depreciation costs no longer apply.

The car hit the midsection of the trailer without applying brakes, you don’t hit the midsection of a trailer unless that semi has been visibly turning for a while. They are not fast making a left turn from a dead stop and the driver and computer had plenty of time to apply brakes if either was so inclined or capable…

Tesla covers their system with warnings and notices that they absolve themselves of responsibility if you choose to turn it on.

This is why I consider Tesla irresponsible, just because you can release it as a public beta doesn’t mean you should.

If by avoidance maneuver you mean, applying the brake when he saw a semi pulling in front of him, yes.

Because any other driver would have simply slowed down or stopped and let the semi go on its way once they saw it was in the intersection.

Exactly this.

The IRS doesn’t accept “The program did it wrong” when they come to audit you, not unless you’re a Democrat politician in which case they’ll give you a pass.

You think this is an AI? Do you know what that term means and what that is? This is a program that follows a basic decision tree that they update remotely as they collect more data, a human is handling the pattern recognition and giving the software more scenarios based on what others are seeing.

You make it seem like it must be either-or, I drive knowing that they are out there and I watch for them because they exist. What you’re asking me to do is trust that the guy who programmed the car knows every possible scenario that this car may encounter on the road and trust my life to his foresight, yeah fuck that.

Except planes keep 3 miles of separation between them, when they do that with cars then I’ll trust the computer more than myself.