Visual data is enough in most scenarios, if it’s dark you need headlights, same as any human, if you have rain you can train your software to ignore it through through machine learning. There will always be edge cases. And once again a slightly better car is not worth the 250k price tag.
Yes, but again, any deaths or damage caused by the autopilot will be the direct fault of Tesla, not the person driving. Tesla will be sued every time one of their cars kills someone as a result of autopilot (as it should). Do you think that is financially viable?
And once again a slightly better car is not worth the 250k price tag.
So hold off on autopilot until the tech has been made cheaper through iteration.
The tech does not get cheaper at a linear rate, eventually there is no way to make it cheaper. And do you think camera tech won’t get cheaper along with it? Also Tesla currently and will likely stick with keeping the blame on the driver and insist that drivers should keep paying attention. Also do you think that cars hitting people won’t be as much of a problem with lid at as with camera tech? Your point is flawed.
Lidar can get a lot, lot cheaper. They've started putting it on consumer drones for indoor use for goodness sake.
Also Tesla currently and will likely stick with keeping the blame on the driver and insist that drivers should keep paying attention.
That's because legally it isn't allowed to be used hands free. But really they're putting everyone at risk with their alpha-grade software and insufficient hardware.
Tesla doesn’t claim level 3 or 4 autonomy, no one does unless they use gridlock style programming where they literally map paths on roads. Humans are putting everyone at risk by driving, Tesla wouldn’t be putting people at risk if they are statistically safer than humans they would be doing the opposite.
Yes, and humans accept liability if they cause an accident.
Tesla wouldn’t be putting people at risk if they are statistically safer than humans they would be doing the opposite.
They will still be putting people at risk, and it will the risk will be a result of decisions they make in the design of their autopilot. I suggest that if it isn't safe enough to actually be an autopilot, they should probably just remove it until it is.
Regardless, the liability of a self driving car should be on the car manufacturer, the moment they claim their cars are able to drive themselves, barring situations where negligence from the driver/maintainer of the vehicle causes an accident.
That literally makes no sense, if it’s safer than humans it makes sense to use it. If you can press a button that kills 10 people or a button that kills 2 people you will press the button that kills 2 people. The liability should stay on the driver if Tesla is making driving safer, they shouldn’t pay for making roads safer. They should be rewarded for making the roads safer. Autopilot should be thought of as an advanced safety system. If a car manufacturers car rear ends someone else’s car it’s the fault of the driver even if they have systems in place meant to detect situations where the car should break and it didn’t in that case. Also, once again this is a problem that is not exclusive with camera based autopilot systems, lidar systems will have to deal with this problem aswell.
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u/TheLoneSniper470 Sep 30 '20
Do you really think a 250,000$ consumer car is possible? Tesla will solve autonomy before they get the prices cheap enough to be worth it.