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Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not really an issue. 99.9% of the time the passengers will already be safe and the pedestrian is the one at risk. The only time I see this being an issue is if the car is already out of control, but at that point there's little anyone can do.

I mean, what's the situation where a car can't break but has enough control where it HAS to kill a pedestrian in order to save the passengers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tesla on their autopilot during night. All the time basically. There were number of motorcycle deaths where Tesla just mowed them down. The reason? They had two tail lights side by side instead one big light. Tesla thought this was a car far away and just ran through people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's a problem with the software. The passengers in the car were never at risk and the car could have stopped at any time, the issue was that the car didn't know what was happening. This situation wouldn't have engaged the autopilot in the way we are discussing.

As an aside, if what you said is true, people at Tesla should be in jail. WTF

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tesla washes their hands of any wrongdoing with terms of use where owner agrees he's responsible bla bla bla.

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