[tinbad]

It’s an outrage that people keep dying and Tesla is allowed to keep using its customers as guinea pigs calling their experimental set of driver assist features “Autopilot”. It doesn’t matter how many disclaimers you provide, an example should be made out of this and all the bro companies (yes looking at you Uber) with complete disregard for proper testing and safety. Testing such early technology on public roads using regular people tricked into thinking they are using mature technology should really be illegal and I hope they get punished harshly.

[corobo]

How many people died in non-autopilot car accidents while you typed that?

This is news because it's not common enough to be a statistic.

[natecavanaugh]

Meanwhile, just today an average of 101 non-autopilot deaths occurred.

Not sure how their technology is really the issue here.

[cjsawyer]

There’s a very high chance that the driver would have been fine if they had been actively driving. How would you think about this if the brakes failed? The steering system? Just because there are other accidents it doesn’t mean that Tesla can’t potentially be blamed for killing this person because of the low maturity of their system.

[corobo]

Blamed yes! Absolutely! Put to the fires to figure out the fault and fix it forever, definitely! Insurance should be paying out and checks for criminal intent followed as it would normally be for a human

Should it stop all progress though, no. No way. Not by a long shot.

Here's another difference - The fix to this issue, unless it's a standard mechanical failure that any other car might have, will fix this issue in all of their cars. A human driver may still right this second lock their wheels in a skid and t-bone another car. The ability for the car to pump the brakes to slow more rapidly had to be a hardware fix rolled out over decades in the form of ABS. With autonomous cars for this to (hopefully) never be an issue again it's tomorrow's software patch

[cjsawyer]

I’m all for progress as long as it’s achieved responsibility and as safely as possible

[b0sk]

Is it wrong to hold technology to a higher standard?

[d0mine]

the technology is worse 30-40 times if I remember correctly numbers from a previous discussion (about Uber?)