"It was not autonomous, the driver was legally in control." That's a legal technicality, isn't it?
My bottom line would that the autopilot failed in this case (and should, and presumably was, improved.) This is one data point. It proves nothing except that machine car control is not perfect and the human executive controller failed to monitor the automatic system sufficiently as the vendor told him to. This tells us just about nothing about appropriate public policy wrt driverless vehicles. Machine control is imperfect; people always don't do what they're told. Not a lot of useful information there. To get good public policy we would have to gather some real numbers and do some comparative analysis. Jim On 16 November 2017 at 11:28, David Boxall <lin...@boxall.name> wrote: > On 15/11/2017 10:44 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > >> ... >> Wonder how it would have played out if that truck had been autonomous >> too. ... >> > For a start, the Tesla was in "driver-assist" mode. It was not autonomous, > the driver was legally in control. The Tesla had radar and computer vision, > but the software was set up to give priority to the latter. Neither the > driver nor the computer vision saw the white semi-trailer against a bright > sky. > > The driver relied on the autopilot, even though Tesla warns against it. > "The car issued six audible warning alerts that he'd spent too long with > his hands off the wheel." > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/20/tesla_death_crash_a > ccident_report_ntsb/ > > That is certainly not an _autonomous_ vehicle incident. > > -- > David Boxall | When a distinguished but elderly > | scientist states that something is > http://david.boxall.id.au | possible, he is almost certainly > | right. When he states that > | something is impossible, he is > | very probably wrong. > --Arthur C. Clarke > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
