> well-educated software engineers are being killed by putting 100% confidence in this glorified cruise control.
If you mean the person who died when his car hit the crash attenuator on the way to work at Apple in California I think you are misrepresenting the situation.
As far as I can tell from the media reports on this case he had reported to Tesla that the autosteer misbehaved at this junction yet he still used it at that place and he was exceeding the speed limit. That's not confidence, it's foolhardiness.
In addition the crash attenuator had been hit by a conventional car a week earlier and had not been repaired.
I have a Tesla S, 2015 autopilot 1, and I use the autosteer feature pretty much every time I use the car. I am also a well educated software engineer but my degree is physics and my career has been in test equipment, embedded controllers, and design software.
I am well aware of the limitations of the feature and I pay attention to the times and circumstances in which it does not behave as well as I would like it to and adjust /my own/ behaviour accordingly. I suspect that most Tesla drivers do the same.
If you mean the person who died when his car hit the crash attenuator on the way to work at Apple in California I think you are misrepresenting the situation.
As far as I can tell from the media reports on this case he had reported to Tesla that the autosteer misbehaved at this junction yet he still used it at that place and he was exceeding the speed limit. That's not confidence, it's foolhardiness.
In addition the crash attenuator had been hit by a conventional car a week earlier and had not been repaired.
I have a Tesla S, 2015 autopilot 1, and I use the autosteer feature pretty much every time I use the car. I am also a well educated software engineer but my degree is physics and my career has been in test equipment, embedded controllers, and design software.
I am well aware of the limitations of the feature and I pay attention to the times and circumstances in which it does not behave as well as I would like it to and adjust /my own/ behaviour accordingly. I suspect that most Tesla drivers do the same.