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Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time (fortune.com)

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[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i barely trust the lane-keeping assistant in my friend's car. imagine going 70+km/h and suddenly the car decides to jerk the steering to the left/right because you weren't exactly in the middle of your lane.

fuck modern assistants IMO. i can use the steering wheel just fine, and people have been able to for a hundred years.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Considering that driving is (statistically) the most dangerous thing the average person does, I wouldn't really say that people use the steering wheel just fine.

It’s just that computers are currently worse at it than humans.

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

agreed. if "autopilot" becomes a better driver than the average person, then it has a right to exist.

[-] PlutoParty@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Despite autopilot's flaws, this is already true, if we are speaking statistically.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

In not entirely sure if I trust the statistics that are available for a couple reasons (and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong):

They are self reported by the manufacturer
Systems like autopilot will revert to manual control when it detects a situation it can’t handle, which means it has the luxury of “not being at fault during the crash” when it may have caused the situation 5 seconds before
It’s comparing to all vehicles instead of just vehicles that have similar non-self-driving but effective safety features

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