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by ReaLNero 1266 days ago
Considering that human lives are at stake, shrugging at the issue is not a good solution. I think two solutions are 1) criminal liability for drivers disabling safety features that endanger others (e.g. on traffic stops) and 2) adversarially strengthening against safety workarounds.
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I'm sure GP is talking about in the context of what is really Tesla's fault here, as the article clearly is trying to bait a reaction on it. Not sure about criminal liability, but at the very least there should be a fine for using it.

I also wouldn't want the AI to decide i'm not touching the wheel because my hands are cold that day or something said AI training might end up.

That's why most of the other systems use eye tracking but tesla decided against it.
Well, yeah. It should be a crime. In fact, I'm pretty sure it IS a crime in some places. That's the point though. You can do anything you want to try to bring the number as close to zero as possible, but there's going to be a non-zero amount of people who make unbelievably irresponsible, potentially deadly decisions. I'm pretty sure that's a fact of life. It's not exactly shrugging it off.

I seriously doubt the person in the vehicle was not aware that they could lose their license for this...

> Considering that human lives are at stake

This has always been the case with cruise control.

EDIT: or one ton death machines (cars) with imperfect logic machines (humans) driving them, actually.