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It's not self driving, so the driver is still at fault for not paying attention. It's only to assist with small steering and braking adjustments when it can.

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That will always be the legal argument. But imagine being 14 years old and then having to take over from an adult driving. That's what it will be like after 30 years of letting the car drive for you. You'll have so many "why is it doing... oh I see" moments pretty soon it will take you longer to question it than to crash.

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And yet they call it autopilot, instead of driver assist or something minor sounding.

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Jets have autopilot, the pilot is still ultimately responsible for the plane.

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Commercial aircraft autopilot systems are capable of taking off, flying the complete route, and landing without pilot assistance. It is a matter of corporate legal exposure and public opinion that requires human pilots to oversee all electronic operations. Pilots are licensed as a foundational component of their occupation. Most non-urban commuters view their use of vehicles as a mundane entitlement of adulthood and the State supports such a view with it's lax management of operational licensure.

Tesla has chosen to brand a system as autopilot, understanding full well what implications are bound to that word. In doing so, they have intentionally fostered the expectation of function associated with an autopilot system. If the system does not offer the functionality described, and the branding remains unchanged, then despite any wink and nod fines print disclaimers, expectations will continue to be held - particularly among those who are of limited cognitive potential, including entire racial populations who have been artificially elevated, not due to merit, but social blackmail and activist ideologies.

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The average car driver isn't familiar with jet airplanes and what autopilot does. What I still interpret that to mean for commercial jets is where the pilot turns control over to the computer and it navigates to do things like land the plane. Of course autopilot is infinitely easier with a plane, since other planes aren't anywhere near you thanks to the air traffic controllers, and there's lots of space when you're in three dimensions.

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Things like this are used to argue against automated cars however it is pretty clear that automated cars drive safer than humans even with these one off errors. Humans kill other humans due to error every day

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These media hitpieces are always aimed against the individual Tesla accidents... just a handful of them. How many other accidents are the media ignoring in order to light a fire about this particular non-story? (Hint: There are 6 million auto accidents each year... that is over 16,000 a day. And there are 38,000 fatalities. How many of those were in Teslas with the autopilot driving?)

Here is what we need to know:

How many Tesla accidents were there, in how many miles driven?

How many human driver accidents were there, in how many miles driven?

Whenever I ask for these numbers, I get crickets. These are the only numbers that matter. They would prove once and for all that a Tesla driving is far safer than a human.

Instead, we get these media hitpieces, intended to incite feelings. I don't care at all about feelings. Give me data. Individual anecdotes are not data.

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"Autopilot is a hands-on driver assistance system that is intended to be used only with a fully attentive driver," the company stated. "It does not turn a Tesla into a self-driving car nor does it make a car autonomous."

Bullshit.

Who the fuck would enable that feature and then pretend to continue driving the vehicle? Personally it will be a cold day in hell before I would ever trust a car to drive for me. But for the leftist virtue signalling douchebags who own Tesla's, a self driving car is an apex selling point.

Tesla:

Autopilot isn't auto piloting the car we just call it that and will continue to push the self driving car meme but when shit happens, it is not self driving or auto piloting.

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ok, now im starting to get worried

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Only fucking douchebag millennials want to go somewhere but are too FUCKING LAZY, STUPID, & PREOCCUPIED BY THEIR PHONES to drive themselves there, they need their cars to do it for them. That's what "uber" is all about too, the laziness of fucking millennials.

Useless motherfuckers.

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It routinely costs me hundreds of dollars an hour when I am not replying to emails. I'd certainly use autopilot if it was a reliable option, and I'm not lazy or stupid. I am preoccupied with my phone but it's not surfing Facebook.