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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/06/tesla-driver-blames-autopilot-for-crash-into-police-car/
A Massachusetts man is facing a negligent-driving charge after his Tesla slammed into a police car that was parked by the side of the road. According to a state trooper, the man had Tesla's Autopilot technology turned on and said that he "must not have been paying attention." The crash occurred in December, but the defendant, Nicholas Ciarlone, was only recently charged in the incident.
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Tesla is aiming to build a more sophisticated self-driving system that fully understands the surrounding environment. Hopefully, Tesla's "full self-driving" software will eventually detect a situation like this and respond appropriately. But as of at least last December, the technology seems to still be a work in progress.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Thursday July 02 2020, @12:06PM (3 children)
Then introduce some serious tests before you hand out driving licences to people, and be more prepared to take them away from proven bad drivers. The driving test in most countries (including the USA) is a joke. We don't need to wait and dream about technical improvements to implement stricter driving licence requirements.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Thursday July 02 2020, @02:13PM
The problem is that people are really bad at paying attention when things are boring...and at high speeds they stop being boring extremely quickly. Being a skilled driver when you're alert isn't sufficient. And for people even 25 mph is high speed, though higher is worse. People have an average reaction time of a quarter of a second, and that's not fast enough. So everything works well as long as your predictions match what happens, but if they're wrong, they don't work fast enough.
I'm not saying Tesla doesn't need to improve their autopilot, I'm saying Tesla *can* improve their autopilot, but you literally can't improve driving skills beyond a rather basic amount. And when people are bored, their reaction times slow.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @04:31PM
You can't do that, because of "muh freedoms".
(Score: 3, Informative) by epitaxial on Thursday July 02 2020, @04:46PM
The cops have pretty much given up enforcing traffic laws for the most part. The state police might still ticket speeders but locally you can do whatever you want. Run red lights and stop signs all day, do triple the speed limit on residential roads, nothing happens.