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Are you kidding me? One of the several times autopilot tried to kill me was when it randomly tried to flat stop on I-80 with a semi driver following me. No way he could have stopped in time if I hadn't disengaged and slammed on the accelerator.

(Absolutely no reason to stop and no weather or afternoon sun for confusion. My best guess is that flaky vision systems thought a semi truck was entering my lane, but I really don't know.)

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But it didn't kill you. If you had a false negative, that means it failed to stop when it should have, and that almost definitely would have caused an accident. False negatives are more dangerous than false positives. Both can be dangerous, but false negatives are worse.

All AEB's from all manufacturers have a certain amount of phantom braking, but non-Tesla AEB are well studied and definitely save lives.

GP gave an obvious example of a false positive. I don't why them thinking fast enough to save their life neglects the point...

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