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That sounds like a cartoon villain. Here's an actual example:

Regulators were concerned after a car on non-FSD Autopilot (AKA Auto-Steer + Traffic Aware Cruise Control) hit an emergency vehicle parked half way in the right lane of a highway due to driver inattention. Tesla quickly pushed an update that uses ML to detect emergency lights and slow to a stop until the driver pushes on the accelerator to indicate it is clear to go.

That's not cheating, that's life-saving technology. No other steer assist technology gets (or sometimes is even capable of getting) updates that fast.




> That sounds like a cartoon villain.

Contempt is such an overused tactic, and never meant anything anyway. Plus, it doesn't sound unrealistic to me.


What's to stop them to push an update that turns the workaround off because it leads to unexpected deceleration in odd lighting, or when there is an emergency vehicle on the other side of a divided freeway?

What process is used to make such decisions?




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