| >This isn't a lowest common denominator issue, but rather addressing the swiss cheese model of driving safety. Autopilot catches problems that I, as a driver, might miss. At the same time, I catch problems that Autopilot might miss. Too bad that, due to lack of awareness while delegating to the Autopilot, one can end up dead in the second case. >I never said anything about almost killing me, and a blip of the brake pedal would only kill you in the event that someone is tailgating to an absurd degree, which is illegal and reckless by itself. You didn't say, but you should have said about it. But you still see it under the very constrained situation where it happened, and the results it had. Not as an error that could happen elsewhere, and with more dire results. As if the specifics of the road and the traffic at that moment where the only possible ones where this could happen. While a fuller interpretation would be: "It has this BS error in judgement -- in what other cases could it be engaged and get me killed". I'd expect people with no autopilot incidents to feel like it's perfectly OK. But to excuse it (because it's cool tech and they'll still ironing it out) when they have seen some, that's just reckless. Like the unfortunate engineer who had seen the same issue that killed them, but brushed it off. https://www.fastcompany.com/40551516/apple-engineer-who-died... |