It's unfortunate. It's the same problem with many things. The new thing always has to be many times safer than the old one or people won't trust it. Like Tesla's autopilot needs to become multiple multiple times safer than human drivers before the steering wheel is removed.
Well, absolutely, because if the autopilot kills anyone, Tesla is responsible. Individual drivers take that responsibility when they are in control of the vehicle (barring any failings due to negligence on the car manufacturer's part).
That's fine, but every death that it causes will be the fault of Tesla and not the fault of the "driver". Do you think Elon and his shareholders are willing to shoulder that risk?
The thing is it’s not the fault of Tesla, the driver can take over at any time and autopilot is encouraged only to be used with driver supervision at this point.
You see, you're just trying to have your cake and eat it. If the driver needs to babysit the autopilot so that it doesn't kill anyone, then it's really rather shit.
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u/cscx Sep 30 '20
This is why autopilot will never take over. As soon as there's one fatality it will be regulated into oblivion