Ooops......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/tesla-driver-on-autopilot-crashes-into-police-car-while-watching-film-12058830
...so we can't even get glorified cruise control working, let alone full autonomy. No death, this time but how many will die before we accept this is pie in the sky?

[iluvmargie]

It's not for me.

[naomi24]

Nor me.

[iluvmargie]

Great minds think alike (haha).

[Tilly2]

Seems to me that it's the idiots driving them that are at fault, rather than the cars themselves.

[ToraToraTora]

it was on autopilot and crashed into a police car Tilly.

[Tilly2]

I know and he was watching a film!

[bhg481]

Yes, a human driver would never ever crash into a police car.

[Old_Geezer]

What were they doing watching a film while the tech is still being developed ?

One can post as many examples of irresponsibility as one likes. It doesn't mean tech won't advance. It's almost like those who denied flight was possible, citing incidents of those who failed prior to the Wright brothers and Kitty Hawk.

[Dagman]

I wonder what percentage of these cars have crashed compared to regular cars!

[Spicerack]

Seems like every one of these crashes, the human 'co-driver' is watching a film.
Would any ABers do that if they had a job testing/overseeing the technology?

[Spicerack]

^Good question, dagman. Would be interesting to know.

[ToraToraTora]

Tilly: "I know and he was watching a film! "
but you said: "Seems to me that it's the idiots driving them that are at fault, rather than the cars themselves. " - but, as you now acknowledge, he wasn't driving. The autopilot failed to avoid a collision.

[ToraToraTora]

spicerack 10:01, he wasn't testing it, he was the owner using the autopilot function, which clearly needs to go back to the drawing board.

[THECORBYLOON]

Tesla don't claim it's autonomous. 'It adds on its website that the software "enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane".

But it warns that it "requires active driver supervision" and does not make the car autonomous.'

Perhaps if the drivers drove in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, there would be fewer such incidents.

[Spicerack]

I thought he was the co-driver because I thought autonomous cars weren't legal yet.
I think it's fair to say I was half right, they're not legal.
These driver 'aids' have been around for years.
Doesn't mean you can stop watching the road.

[Tilly2]

OK, TTT. It's the idiots 'not' driving them.

[ToraToraTora]

spice, this is not an autonomous car, it has a feature that is essentially cruise control with knobs on, It is supposed to accelerate and brake and stay in lanes of traffic. As TCL points out, there is a problem with owners of these cars believing that they are autonomous. I am, on this post, pointing out that the "autopilot" function clearly is proving too difficult so what chance for actual automated vehicles?

[bhg481]

Actually, TTT. you are proving that humans aren't capable of driving cars safely.

[Togo]

Wonder what film the "driver" was watching. Crash? Crash Course? The Incredible Crash Dummies?

[ToraToraTora]

bhg, How?