technocritFather and son incinerated after ‘self-driving’ Tesla suddenly slammed into tree
Huh, I guess if I let go of the steering wheel in my car, it’s also going to self-drive into a tree, or wall, or car, even without all the fancy marketing by it’s maker of self-driving capabilities
Yes I hate tesla like everyone else but the driver is the driver. The car is not the driver.
I have a Ford Edge that can self steer with Cruise Control on.
If I take my hands off the wheel for more than a few seconds it screams at me and disables the self steering. For it to work I must have a hand on the wheel at all times.
Same with my Tesla. I’m sure part of this lawsuit will cover whether it screamed for the driver in time.
Realistically that’s even a likely scenario for the crash. Autopilot (which is simply adaptive cruise plus lane keeping) screamed for the driver and disengaged, but the driver was not paying attention
I’d also like to know what kind of road it was on. Some of these descriptions of roads in the uk are scenarios where it doesn’t make sense to think autopilot would work, nor to go fast enough for a crash of this severity.