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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality (www.reuters.com)

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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality::Tesla Inc is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk's assertions about the technology.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Autopilot is cable of basically ying the plane itself. A human is there for when shit goes wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like if another plane is nearby? It's not exactly just "shit going wrong." Autopilot doesn't follow TCAS or ATC commands for instance.

So to be similar, driver autopilot only needs to work while there are no other cars that might be in your path. Which is why we've had some degree of plane autopilot for nearly a century and are just starting to get some degree of car autopilot--the assumption that no cars might be in your path is pretty much always false.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only if you ignore traffic. Autopilot doesn't take in ATC directions. But it's not a useful comparison, air traffic and navigation is much simpler compared to ground.