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by soco 1048 days ago
And this is the very reason I am not interested at all in anything self-driving below a _proven_ level 5. I either drive or I don't, it's as simple as that. Expecting people to watch over the driver's shoulder is b$ both from the expecting side and from the promising side and I'm actually angry that it is the accepted premise nowadays. It's easy to punish the failing supervisor, and ignore a system built on out-of-touch premises - because ask any psychologist and they will confirm that constant attention cannot be expected from regular humans (and no, calling you supervisor driver won't make you superhuman). On the anecdote side, I disabled my cruise control after I've been told - more than once - that I drive more reckless with it active, trying to keep the cruise speed and not touch any pedal/button in moments where it was rather dangerous to do so. And they were right, I had to recognize - turns out I'm human too.