Please, please drive your car.
More than zero hands should be on the wheel and your eyes should be on the road.
If you can't be bothered to do this, perhaps find another mode of transport.
More than zero hands should be on the wheel and your eyes should be on the road.
If you can't be bothered to do this, perhaps find another mode of transport.
If you are responsible for two tons of metal flying down the road at 70 mph you need to be fully engaged in that task.
We can handle being passengers and we can handle being drivers but we can't switch in a split second.
So my contention is that level-X where X is less than "I can fall asleep in the back seat" is a deadly valley between unassisted driving and passive passenger.
The Mercedes system has a top speed of 40 mph.
> We can handle being passengers and we can handle being drivers but we can't switch in a split second.
That's why there is a 10 second handover. If the human fails to take control of the vehicle during the handover, the vehicle will slow to a stop.
That's up to 130 km/h starting 2023
A few examples of activities that could be hard to switch away from in time:
* Eating breakfast with food in my lap and the spoon halfway to my mouth.
* Typing an email.
* Reading a book.
Some of these could allow you to physically have your hands on the wheel in time, but then you still need to context switch your brain and then get up to date on the road.
That's the thing - you're not. Once engaged, Mercedes takes liability, so you're no longer responsible.
Legally (though surely to be tested in court).
Morally though, I'd say the driver is still responsible if they kill someone. It doesn't feel right to say "Oh well, it's Mercedes' fault, shrug" after your car with you in it drives over someone else.
I didn't say you were legally responsible. You are morally responsible.
Like IBM said back in the 70s; A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
Well you're letting it make decisions for you in a 2 ton murder weapon.
I feel less safe knowing there will be humans on the roads letting go of their steering wheels and handing over control to an imperfect system.
Some day I'm sure we'll have automated traffic, but the road there will be lined with bodies.