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by taylodl 380 days ago
> In this case, the driver had less than a second to react, and even if he had reacted, it might have made things worse, like correcting, but not enough to get back on the road and hit the tree head-on instead.

As the article rightly notes, Tesla FSD is still a Level 2 driver assistance system, not a fully autonomous solution. From my background in Human-Machine Interface (HMI) design, I’ve long argued that expecting a human to instantly take over in a high-speed, high-stakes situation - especially to correct an unexpected or erratic system behavior - is a fundamental design flaw.

Human attention and reaction time simply don’t align with the demands of these edge cases. If the system requires a human to be both disengaged and instantly ready, it creates a paradox that undermines safety.