What Michael wrote -
My understanding is that the driver can always override, so this curvy
road
business could have been a matter of driver not on board to do their
job.
- is the crux of the matter.
I don't have first hand experience using Tesla's autopilot. Assuming you
are paying attention, then what is it like when autopilot fails and you
have to take control ? If you are paying attention, it seems to me that
it might take a tenth second or so to react. I'll guess that in nearly
all cases, that would be enough time to handle the car easily and
safely.
However, I'll further conjecture that most drivers aren't really paying
close attention when on autopilot. Even if they have the hands on the
wheel, how much time would they take to react ? One-half second ? More ?
That makes a huge difference in safety.
To compare this to manual control, I know that when I drive I can relax
my attention if there are no other cars in the vicinity and the road is
straight and clear. But as soon as something could encumber my route,
I'm 100% focused on the road. If I had autopilot, would I have the same
behavior - relaxed when unencumbered, focused when not ? Would you ?
I think NTSB should require Tesla to record more data. It is very
disingenuous if Tesla stops recording data when autopilot drops out -
and I'm not saying they do this, since I don't know. But if they are,
they are really creating misleading statistics.
Peri
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Sent: 04-Feb-22 16:16:34
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Tesla’s Sneaky Rolling Stops
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