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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times (www.carscoops.com)

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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times::Six officers who were injured in the crash are suing Tesla despite the fact that the driver was allegedly impaired

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[-] Md1501@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ah, so its just people defeating the system

[-] stealin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The system with cars is that you don't distract the driver from driving, having a system that takes over driving is exactly that, so the idea of the system is flawed to begin with.

[-] Technoguyfication@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have to say this is extremely inaccurate imo. Self driving takes over the menial tasks of keeping the car in the lane, watching the speed, etc. and allows an attentive driver to focus on more high level tasks like looking at the road ahead, watching the sides of the road for potential hazards, and keeping more aware of their blind spots.

Just because the feature can be abused does not inherently make it unsafe. A drunk driver can use cruise control to more accurately control the vehicle’s speed and avoid a ticket, does that make it a bad feature? I wouldn’t say so.

Autopilot and other driver assist systems are good when used responsibly and cautiously. It’s frustrating to see people cause an accident after misusing the system and blame the technology instead. This is why we can’t have nice things.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

It’s frustrating to see

This is why we can’t have nice things

It is also frustrating to see people whining for technology when they should rather think about dead policemen and rescuers.

You should get your priorities straight if you ever hope to be taken seriously

[-] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 year ago

Screenshotting this because it's so well put.

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