[na85]

>You're also entrusting my life, and those of my family, to them. But we'll gloss over that, because it's expensive not to.

This is my biggest concern. I'm going to get killed by some jackass' tesla while he's texting, because Elon Musk is a megalomaniac.

[nrjames]

There are loads of people texting and driving who aren’t in a Tesla. I worry much more about them.

[BoorishBears]

I worry about them, but not more than people abusing AP, they're all in the same boat.

The people texting and driving are idiots, distracted idiots, but they have no misconceptions about if their car will save them if they take a nap.

Elon's made comments about "your hands are just there for regulatory reasons" and overpromised for years so now people abuse it until it's just as dangerous if not more dangerous than distracted driving (stuff like intentionally sleeping or using a laptop full time)

Other manufacturers are coming out with features that protect me from texting drivers without generating a new breed of ultra-distracted drivers like those who are falling for Elon's act.

Now a base model Corolla, pretty much the automotive equivalent of a yardstick, will steer people back into their lane and warn drowsy drivers that the car is intervening too much.

A Tesla can't even do the latter.

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One day we're going to look back and wonder why we allowed things like automatic steering without fully fleshed FSD.

I mean the driver is actually safer if you only intervene when something goes wrong. They're forced to be attentive, yet in all situations where they fail to be attentive and AP would have saved them... it does save them. And tells them to get their head out of their backside.

If AP did that every person it has saved would have still been saved, but a few people it got killed would still be here today.

[mlang23]

Same here. However, I am assuming you have decent sight, so you can at least protect yourself in certain situation. Me is blind, and I am getting increasingly weary about the future as a pedestrian. As a kid, one of my biggest fears were automatic doors. I sort of imagined they would close on me and try to kill me. I am afraid this horror is going to be true at some point of my life. Automation is going to kill me one day.

[throwaway316943]

Don’t worry, it’s much more likely that you’ll be killed by someone who is texting and driving some other make of car.