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Originally Posted by seifrob
So please explain why is someone investigating Tesla???
IMHO their worst fault was to market it as "autopilot" instead of "smart drive-assist" and not to inform their stockholders about the incident (but why they should in the first place??)
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Tesla put something extremely powerful out to market and have covered their butts as far as accident liability, but don't seem to have adressed ethics and social issues connected to it. Most famously, "the handoff";
Pilot tells copilot "I'm going to hand you the controls"
Copilot confirms "I'm ready to take the controls"
Control is passed to the copilot. Someone is always flying the plane.
In a self driving car, the car is faced with a situation it isn't able to handle, and either doesn't realize it (taking a random freeway exit instead of continuing on, driving under a trailer, etc) or taps out and abandons the controls. These situation happens very quickly on a road full of cars, and if the driver isn't watching or anticipating the handoff, then no one is flying the plane. The first thing you do when told the car will drive itself, is stop worrying about driving. Our roads and Tesla's cars are not really equipped for autonomous driving, even if they can get the car to put on a good show most of the time. Heck, I've had close calls with regular cruise control that wouldn't have happened if I was regulating my own speed
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Originally Posted by seifrob
--and, although slightly off topic, but three other questions:
there are some urban legends or jokes about American law system, so I would like to know:
- do you have warning in your microwave ovens that you are not supposed to let animals dry inside? (based on urban legend)
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Mine does not, but it could well be in the manual. Ridiculous warnings are more a product of our very letigious legal climate than a widespread lack of common sense. However something like that might have been necessary when the microwave first hit market.
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- is it true that it is explicitly stated that one cannot leave to pee while driving his mobile home? (that is one of the urban legends Fingie wrote in earlier post)
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Depends on how many people tried it. But if mobile homes implement autonomous driving, you bet there will be warnings like that
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- how about match boxes. Do have label "Open the other side up"?
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Mine only says close before striking, but the packaging is printed to suggest a clear top/bottom
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-- I donīt want to sneer at you, I am really curious.
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No offense taken, its good to be able to laugh at each other and ourselves. After all, someone out there has actually wrecked their motor home thinking they could run back and take a quick leak