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by gwbas1c 1481 days ago
> Tesla would just be to have a debug button where you can report and elevate the past 10 seconds of driving

They do. Push the microphone button and say "Bug Report."

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Lol. Tesla is really just beta testing in production. When software companies do that we say it’s bad. When Tesla dies this it’s ground breaking innovation. When my internet browser crashes no one dies.
It’s because people are bad at reasoning. You don’t ban Autopilot for being imperfect, you ban it if it’s less safe than the average driver. However, Tesla’s crash rate is on the order of 10x better than the US average—assuming that carries over to the fatality rate pretty linearly, it would mean we could save 36k of the 40k lives lost each year to traffic fatalities if Autopilot were ubiquitous and mandatory. The idea that we should just sacrifice thousands of people until Autopilot is flawless is abhorrent and foolish.