Can any other Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) stop in such a case? (Real question, I don't know).
My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
Marketplace or Planet Money had a piece a few weeks ago that mentioned the hardest problem was consumer education about these safety systems. People are inherently not interested in learning about the life safety systems in their cars. They expect it to “just work”. Whose failing is it if warnings clearly state that isn’t the case?
“The car companies don't hide the fact that today's AEB systems have blind spots. It's all there in the owner's manuals, typically covered by both an all-encompassing legal disclaimer and explicit examples of why the systems might fail to intervene. For instance, the Camry's AEB system may not work when you're driving on a hill. It might not spot vehicles with high ground clearance or those with low rear ends. It may not work if a wiper blade blocks the camera. Toyota says the system could also fail if the vehicle is wobbling, whatever that means. It may not function when the sun shines directly on the vehicle ahead or into the camera mounted near the rearview mirror.”
[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu...
Tesla should be responsible and stop marketing it.
Otherwise you're begging legislators to write ham-handed laws, begging courts to set awful precedents.
Either way, they are absolutely poisoning the well.
Here’s an an article from last year:
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15342750/2018-volvo-xc60-...
I haven't found conclusive evidence, but the lack of news around other TACCs crashing into stationary objects is an indicator it might be a Autopilot specific issue.
> My current understanding is that Tesla's TACC is the best on the market. Correct?
Define best. It definitely has a lot of features few or no other systems have; on the other hand, it's a test program. It's officially Beta-Software, given to drivers to test and identify issues. So from a feature-set it's probably the best you can buy - but it turns you into a Test-Driver rather than a user of a product.
IMO, I think this may actually not be true. Due to Tesla's popularity, and the amount of investors that have stated that they were shorting TSLA, I do think that media have a tendency to report more news about such accidents just because a Tesla was involved. If a Tesla crashes somewhere, the first question probably is "Was Autopilot enabled?", while with most other car crashes, it's just a car crash.
So I don't think that lack of news about other cars with TACC means that they don't suffer from similar issues. (TBH I wouldn't be able to name any other cars with such an advanced TACC either).