More than 2 million Teslas are being recalled due to unsafe Autopilot

Inadequate driver monitoring means that Autopilot is far too easily misused.

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[randomcat]

With the limitations of current technology on display, at some point you really might as well just drive the car yourself instead of gripping the wheel in a tense state of catlike readiness, waiting for your car to betray you at any moment.

 

[randomcat]

By all means protect people from their own attempts to subvert the system, and those who ignore or refuse to read the manual and warnings in bold. But think about it, without natural selection and survival of the fittest, what else will keep us lean and mean? Protecting the stupid to this degree is leading us to an 'Idiocracy' (see the movie) like future. Just sayin'

We're not protecting the Tesla drivers from themselves. They can personally win a Darwin Award all they want, that's cool. But It's not "natural selection" or "survival of the fittest" if some moron drives his Tesla through a busy crosswalk and kills a bunch of other people.

 

[randomcat]

As a Tesla driver, I very much do want the NHTSA and equivalent authorities to protect the Tesla drivers from themselves. In addition to other people.

Of course! The OP was implying that operating a vehicle unsafely is a personal choice that should be allowed to play itself out, to remove that person from the genepool. I'm disagreeing with the idea that safety laws are basically a eugenics program that only considers the direct user and not anybody or anything else.

 

[randomcat]

Who is driving? Oh my god, bear is driving!

HOW CAN THAT BE!?

 

[randomcat]

Thank you for this excellent description of the reason I do not find any kind of cruise control "relaxing." I find it far less stressful to perform the task that could kill me myself, rather than supervising an idiot who might kill us both at any moment.

I'd be a nervous wreck. Legally and realistically, we're the fallback in event of failure, no matter what crazy bullshit the car does--which means the computer might toss control back to us in the midst of an unrecoverable skid off the highway or two seconds before impact with a bridge abutment at sixty miles per hour.

Oops! Good luck with that, human!