Tesla Driver Using Autopilot Crashes Into Home, Killing a Woman

[Reli]

There have been plenty of cases where a driver intended to push down on a brake but pushed the accelerator and continued to push down to stop the car even through several seconds as the car accelerated. Some people just shouldn't drive, they lack the temperment and ability to adjust when something doesn't do what they expect, they just double and triple down on what they're doing.

That happened with Audi back in the 80s. The pedals were smaller and closer together than Americans were accustomed to, so they blamed their cluelessness on the car.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

A PhD I spoke with recently shared that his biggest concern about AI is its potential to reduce our cognitive function—especially when it comes to basic thinking skills

yep, I can already see this around the place -- people quoting "AI" or "google" (which gives an AI result nowadays) and ... considering that "thinking". It's worse when the info is wrong (because it's not thought through, heh heh)!

Some people just shouldn't drive, they lack the temperment and ability to adjust when something doesn't do what they expect, they just double and triple down on what they're doing.

making the cars easier and easier to drive is literally going to bring more and more of these dumb incidents

The above-mentioned "one pedal driving" seems to fall into that "too easy" category

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I mean, it is a Mercedes, isn't it supposed to be good.

I myself have never caught on nor believed , that Tesla has built its reputation on safety. What exactly is the safe shit it does? The self parking that doesn't work? The crashing of a highway divider on 101 while on autopilotcruise?!?! It's just an electric car with dumb interior.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

I mentioned this in another Tesla thread that a friend was a Tesla salesman and he had customers that literally could not drive buying the cars because they thought it could drive them around.

Terrible.. gross.. yeah I remember you mentioning it.

 

[Akira-R]

My Mercedes has the driving and speed assist. But it can't do much on tight turns, or anything really beyond freeways. Even on freeways, if the turn is too tight for the speed, it will drift into the other lane unable to correct properly. I would never use it on city streets or even off ramps.

The one thing it does do is violently attack lane splitters if i try to move over to create space