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Carlos from Spain:

That's true, there should be a fail system in place to avoid misuse of the not fully autonomous autopiot like forcing the driver to keep the hands on the wheel at all times or the system disengages, but then that would make it too obvious that its not even close to fully autonomous system and they rather not for marketing reasons broken heart

Still, in the case above the woman has no right to sue, she was at fault for using a semi-autonomous system like if it wad a fully autonomous, just like the guy letting the tesla go through a red light because the idiot didnt know its not supposed to see traffic lights.

 

NTSB could always legislate a law that says all autonomous cars can only travel at 5km/hr maximum AND have a flashing yellow light on the roof with a sign that says IDIOT MODE ENGAGED to warn other drivers.....

 

I seriously don't get autonomous mode, if one hates driving that much, why don't they ask the wife/girlfriend to drive, or take the bus, take the subway or get a driver or call Uber? Then they can have all sorts of tine texting on their phone or watching Youtube videos on their phones.

 

 

Eventually, automobiles, or the replacement transportation technologies, will operate in autonomous modes to help facilitate increased traffic flow as urban and exurban areas populations increase over the next century.  However, as you have pointed out, the current levels of self-driving systems fail to replicate even the worse quintile of human drivers.  One is even less confident of Tesla's systems versus its competition, namely General Motors' Supercruise and Audi's AI, as Tesla's system relies solely on a camera-based system combined with some level of artificial intelligence.  One little discussed technology developed for the United States Apollo moon program was the use of Kalman Filtering which combines information from differing sensor systems, i.e., sensor fusion, to increase accuracy.  That redundancy, from multiple sensor types, is missing in the current iteration of Tesla's Autopilot, yet present in virtually all the other automakers' products.