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by camjohnson26 1910 days ago
This is not behavior consistent with experienced driving, it’s the opposite. In cities you have to know when to follow the rules and when it’s safer to break them. At one point in the video the car stops behind double parked cars and doesn’t know enough to go around them. At another point it happily drives on the wrong side of the road, completely unaware of what it’s doing. All this behavior is incredibly dangerous and if I saw another driver doing that I would stay far away. With this many close calls I don’t believe that there have been no crashes or fender benders, no matter what Elon says.
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If there really have been no crashes with this system on the road, it is a testemant to how safe the average human driver actually is. That doesn't say good things about the future of self-driving cars.
Well everyone worried that driver assistance functionality like this would make drivers complacent.

Perhaps this does the opposite, it's so unpredictable that drivers much pay more attention than they normally would and therefore they don't crash :D