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Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads (jalopnik.com)

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Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads::"It affects all of us because we are essentially experiments in public roads."

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 243 points 11 months ago (75 children)

I lost all trust in their 'Autopilot' the day I read Musk said (Paraphrasing) "All we need are cameras, there's no need for secondary/tertiary LIDAR or other expensive setups"

Like TFYM? No backups?? Or backups to the backups?? On a life fucking critical system?!

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 102 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

The crazier and stupier shit was that part of his justification was that "people drive and they only have eyes. We should be able to do the same."

Its a stunningly idiotic justification, and yet here we are with millions of these "eyes only" teslas on the road.

[–] tcely@fosstodon.org 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's terrifying for showing how little he understands about the problem he is attempting to solve.

Humans use up to four senses at times to accomplish the task of driving.

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[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 31 points 11 months ago

I can add more, we don't only have five senses. Elementary school propoganda that is. Here's all the ones I can think of while driving.

Vision
Hearing
Tactile feedback from wheel, pedals, you could break this down further into skin tactile pressure receptors, and also receptors of muscle tension, though muscle tension and stretching receptors also involved in number 4
Proprioception, where your limbs and body are in space
Rotational acceleration (semi circular canals)
Linear acceleration (utricle and saccule)
Smell, okay this might be a stretch but, some engine issues can be smelly

And that doesn't even consider higher order processing and actual integration of all these things which despite all it's gains with Ai recently can't match all the capabilities of the brain to integrate all that information or deal with novel stimuli. Point is Elon, add more sensors to your dang cars so they're less likely to kill people. And people aren't even perfect at driving, why would we limit it to only our senses anyways? So dumb

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Licking the steering wheel makes it five

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 16 points 11 months ago

"Tastes like danger."

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