A Tesla owner has been charged with vehicular homicide for killing a motorcyclist while browsing the web on their phone while the car was on Autopilot. According to the driver he was “putting the trust in the machine to drive for him,”
The naming of this feature kills people.
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • •@Dare Obasanjo Do ... people think that autopilot on planes and boats, where the term comes from, does anything much more complicated than "hold this course and this speed"? I have a boat. Autopilot has three modes:
1 - go to this lat/long in a straight line, regardless of what's in the way
2 - follow this compass heading, regardless of what's in the way
3 - hold this angle to the wind, regardless of what's in the way
I think people who have never had first hand experience of actual real autopilots are severely overestimating what it is they actually do. They're basically just cruise control for boats and planes.
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Unknown parent • •@Hank G ☑️ @Dare Obasanjo he’s a fecking eejit, and so are they.
My Leaf has the same capabilities more or less. Once every thousand kilometres or so it tries to kill me.
Computers aren’t scared of dying. People need to understand that.
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Unknown parent • • •@hankg
Good. It's about time blatant lies in advertising were punished.
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