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Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jorge@feddit.cl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Numberone@startrek.website 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Is linked to excess deaths? Technically it could be saving lives at a population scale. I doubt that's the case, but it could be. I'll read the article now and find out.

Edit: it doesn't seem to say anything regarding "normal" auto related deaths. They're focusing on the bullshit designation of an unfinished product as "autopilot",and a (small) subset of specific cases that are particularly aggregious, where there were 5-10 seconds of lead time into an incident. In these cases a person who was paying attention wouldn't have been in the accident.

Also some clarity edits.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well, did you find out?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OP should come back in one hour and say "nvm, I found out".

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Added, sorry for the delay.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, you kissed an opportunity for some Lols and gave us boring information instead. Boo!

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

And now you know something about me😋

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Added. Sorry for the delay.

[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

As I said! People in this thread are dumb (IMO). If they read the article they would literally see most of these crashes were because of autopilot misuse. I'm highly confident even with these deaths - there would be more then this if there was no autopilot at all and if these people were driving manually. I got no data on this but that's just my hunch.