| No, the "facts" you keep reading about (from the same companies trying to sell you on the technology) are extremely misleading. Tesla for instance does that statistic against "average driving" but the "Average driving" happens in cities. And most Teslas enable Autopilot on highways, where Tesla recommends enabling it, too. Accidents happen much less on highways, so of course this "statistic" looks better. Put Autopiloted Teslas in the cities and then see how that statistic fares. My guess is it will become much, much worse. The more real statistic is that even Waymo, which is about an order of magnitude better than anything else on the market, has an "incident" where a human driver would need to intervene every 5000 miles. For everyone else, a human driver would need to intervene every few hundred miles. That's far from the "self-driving" technology we were promised. Two relevant posts from someone that used to lead the Waymo project, before it was named Waymo: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/06/10/gmcrui... https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/04/18/are-ro... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/04/uber-goog... |
I compared your recent comments to 6 months ago. They seem a bit better now.
Why not just email and apologize? We all have bad days. Why let a string of bad days tank your 8-year history?
Regardless of what you decide, I wanted to leave an encouraging comment. At least one person is thinking of you and cheering you on. Good luck.