Claim: Tesla knew Autopilot caused death, but didn't fix it
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Software's alleged inability to handle cross traffic central to court battle after two road deaths

Tesla knew Autopilot caused death, but didn’t fix it::Software’s alleged inability to handle cross traffic central to court battle after two road deaths

  • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
    710·
    11 months ago

    Yeah, there are some major differences in the vehicles, but both disengage when there’s anything out of the ordinary going on. Maybe people base their understanding of autopilots on the movie “Airplane!” where that inflatable puppet groped the Stewardess afterwards.

      • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        True, good point. As far as I know, it does turn itself off if it detects something it can’t handle, though. The problem with cross traffic is that it obviously can’t detect it, otherwise turning itself off would already be a way of handling it.

        Proximity detection is far easier up in the air, especially if you’re not bound by the weird requirement to only use visible spectrum cameras.

        (To make things clear, I’m just defending the engineers there who had to work within these constraints. All of this is a pure management failure.)

      • Ocelot@lemmies.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’m sorry, what? If you set an airplane to maintain altitude and heading with autopilot, it will 100% fly you into the side of a mountain if there’s one in front of you.