The illusion of self driving is super dangerous.
People completely check out, like this person, playing on their phone. And then an avoidable accident happens, this one being fatal.
People completely check out, like this person, playing on their phone. And then an avoidable accident happens, this one being fatal.
Might be better to have the autopilot as the copilot and not the other way around.
Only a subset of aircraft have autopilots, and many autopilots have very limited functionality. You can't just set a destination airport and go to sleep. The pilot is actively flying the aircraft at all times, even if they're not directly actuating the flight controls.
Aviation practices are very much about ensuring that there are extra layers of protection that should all prevent an accident, that even if one fails the others continue to maintain safety. ATC, autopilot, pilot, TCAS, etc. Contrast this with automotive practices, which seem to be about achieving the minimum amount of safety possible.
If flying in free air had the same number of variables as driving on oddly shaped roads filled with oddly shaped vehicles and obstacles and the occasional people crossing where they shouldn't, we'd have an air crash every hour. A flock of pigeons usually isn't fatal for an airplane engine, now imagine flying surrounded by people testing their new jet backpack. I'm 100% convinced we'll send someone to Mars a lot before we'll have safe self driving vehicles.
I think before passing judgement though, I would like to know how a human would have performed. Aviation investigations often recreate scenarios in a simulator and then have other pilots fly them. I'd imagine something similar could be done for cars.
FSD is pretty good at motorcycle detection and has the advantage of cameras looking in all directions.
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And for further info that includes a comparison to Waymo see [1].
Doesn’t seem right to call something that is 10x safer “terrible”, but maybe you have different metrics you are looking at.
[0] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-releases-vehicle-safety-repo... [1] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/07/tesla-autopilot-fsd-an...
Of maybe your “metrics” are just slightly dishonest?
Presumably you can only use FSD under conditions where accidents are already significantly less likely to happen (per mile driven) like freeways etc?
Which makes this an apples to oranges comparison.
Turning “FSD” off just before an accident is likely to happen without necessarily giving enough time for the driver to react would also be very helpful (although I’m not sure how the cases would be recorded specifically )
Quick question: are there roads or conditions Autopilot doesn't do well on, so can't or won't be activated?
I don't see Autopilot working well in a bitter New England winter storm at night. Or a torrential Florida downpour.
That's why those metrics suck. And Tesla knows. They compare "all drivers, all conditions" to the "idealist, best case subset of miles driven by Autopilot".
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Well, his vehicle was the only one on that busy highway that afternoon that "lurched forward while accelerating" and crashed into the motorcycle in front of him, so I think we have the answer to your question.
I don't expect Tesla's FSD to be perfect. But I do expect it to not be worse than the simple and effective collision avoidance that nearly all new cars have.