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Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (20 children)

It's a skill issue on the driver's part... or do you want the Tesla to come to a screeching halt on the highway every time the cameras white out from the sun?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This is the system that's meant to drive the car autonomously?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Autopilot will let a plane fly a heading, or even follow waypoints and land, but you the pilot still have to be watching the sky and the plane, ready to take over when something goes wrong. And airlines have way more stringent safety measures than cars.

    That means auto drive systems still require the meatsack to monitor the driving, ready to take over when something goes wrong.

    In this case, either the driver was hooning it and did a full send into the house, or he had a skill issue and put the brake accelerator to the floor in a panic moment.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    I want vehicles that rely on cameras for detecting obstacles to be banned.

    Anything that uses reasonable object detection methods should be banned if it lets you drive into a house. My Kia won't let me drive into a house.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Honestly curious, what will your Kia do if you point it at a house and floor the accelerator from a few hundred meters away? I have no idea how my BYD would react and I'm not eager to test it. It has emergency braking, but I don't know how effective that actually is.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    if you point it at a house and floor the accelerator from a few hundred meters away?

    I don't know for sure and I can't think of a good way to test. It certainly wouldn't hit it when "driving itself" with smart cruise control or if I tried to drive into it from a few metres away.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    We use “cameras” for object detection

    lol

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Personally, I want cars that automate driving to use more than one type of sensor so that they react more realistically in more circumstances. Tesla going camera-only was a mistake and Elon just keeps doubling down on it.

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