Originally published at: Tesla autopilot involved in far more crashes than previously reported | Boing Boing
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I’ll get them started. “This is all part of God-emperor Elon’s deliberate 4- dimensional plan to show how much better his cars are than those without any autopilot”.
Pass the popcorn, please.
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Musk: Twitter is hiding data about bots to drive up the value of its company!
Also Musk: Our bots are safe!
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ObHate, Elon Musk is clearly an asshole.
That having been said, I’ve been using “Autopilot” (which is just branded driver assistance) since 2015 and feel confident in saying it’s not notably dangerous if you aren’t a damn fool. I’m not aware of technology to fix damn fools, yet.
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“ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ur problem now lol”
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“Complex systems fail in complex ways.” – John Gall (paraphrased)
The thing about these kinds of systems that operators really can’t see is that they are failing. All. The. Time. Once a system passes a certain complexity it becomes qualitatively different. Instead of trying to avoid failure, you build half the thing just to recover. That’s even in systems in a tightly scoped problem space. What’s fun about these is that on top of the fundamental complexity of the control systems you have a literally incomprehensible complexity introduced by the AI. This means that none of our intuition works when predicting what these systems can do. They will surprise us, and even shock us by how weirdly they will react.
If I get to know a horse I can predict how it will behave around loud noises and make adjustments.
I can drive a Tesla for many years on autopilot and never have any idea what it will do if it detects a turtle.
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Huh, Musk was hiding the true magnitude of a bad number then. You don’t say…
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Well, read a bit more, it’s always helped me with comprehension problems (except for conspiracy theories and advanced calculus).
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Right. Which is why only a damn fool treats it as anything other than driver assistance. It’s also why Elon Musk is blowing smoke up his own ass when he says any of his cars are going to operate autonomously in the next few years or frankly, in his lifetime.
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Right attitude, and best of luck!
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It’s the special “Jesus take the wheel!” feature. Or maybe it’s a Fight Club enlightenment enhancement feature - “Guys, what will wish you had done before you die?” “Paint a self-portrait.” “Build a house.” I know it’s definitely a feature, I just may lack the marketing brain to understand it.
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I have no problem believing you.
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“I’ll tell you about my mother.” And then the car starts playing Grimes.
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It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
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Substitute “reality” for “website” in this statement and you’d be like a lot of the new commenters who’ve been drawn here in the past few days.
Since you said what you said, feel free to tell us exactly what’s puzzling you.
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How do you feel about tortoises turned upside down in the hot sun?
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Stop the car, Hal.
Dave, I’m sorry, I can’t do that right now.
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