[ivanca]

Just like we now rely on babies to call 911 for emergencies since we heard about one successfully doing it once.

Seriously, this is the worst kind of strawman, pretending reading about a single case of something will change how people behave in an emergency.

[machinelearning]

I'd like to hear the rationale of the people who downvote this comment. This comment looks correct to me.

The main characteristic of established protocols in the event of an emergency are that they are supposed to be reliable and not require complex computation on the part of the user.

I doubt any sane person (simple metric: those who would call the ambulance instead of driving the person to the hospital in current times), would be more likely to use the autopilot feature instead of calling an ambulance.

Yes there will always be dumb people till posterity, but to claim people are more likely to abuse the feature than current rates is nonsense.

[rdtsc]

I think in general anything slightly negative about Tesla or Elon Musk related has a good chance of getting downvoted on HN.