It’s incredible how long a leash the NHTSA has given Tesla up to now. Uber had one fatality and their entire program was axed, according to this article Tesla has had 11. Compare that to Waymo whose cars have driven millions of miles and I believe only been in a few fender benders with no fatalities.
Apples and oranges. Tesla AutoPilot is a driver assistance system not an autonomous vehicle. It doesn’t even claim to avoid these situations, hence the need for full attention by the driver.
AP has billions, not millions of miles driven FWIW.
Tens of thousands of people die in car accidents per year, nationally, so a few dozen fatalities in exchange for faster self driving progress sounds like a good bargain.
My Model Y is generally unconcerned with out of place stuff on the road. Bicycles? Yes. People walking? Not really. “Yield in crosswalk” posts in the middle of the road? No.
It's surprises me greatly that our 2011 Nissan Leaf didn't get to have LED taillights because "Federal rules" that hadn't caught up to current technology, but a car that smooshes people on the side of the road? "A-okay by us, we'll just do some investigations after it's too late and a person is killed", say the Feds.
Think of how much more focused the Autopilot team is by releasing completely unsafe software and trying to fix it before regulators get their act together. Death driven development.
Autopilot seems to have some issues if there are vehicles parked in the shoulder. I feel like any human driver would give a wide berth to parked vehicles.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 41.3 ms ] threadAP has billions, not millions of miles driven FWIW.
Plenty of human drivers have hit vehicles parked on the shoulder. It's not difficult to find news items about such accidents.
Random examples: https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/two-killed-in-two-veh...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-16/man-woma...
https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2021/08/28/crash-involving-...
But you see the problem -- for the outrage journalism to stop, it has to be a lot better (~10X) than humans.