> With Tesla you are constantly paying attention, or should be to the same level that you are with any other car.
you should be paying attention, but you are not. Human attention is a difficult thing. from what I recall, in a driving it takes about 7-14 seconds to re-gain situational awareness. This means that 1 second isn't enough.
> Like "a Prius driver drove off a bridge and is now landing on our hood." Of course the system will disable itself in that situation;
I'd expect that the system would slam on the brakes, not disengage to avoid liability. Thats the point here, its not about tech, its about legality. Thats the worse part, the entire system appears to be designed to stop tesla being taken to court.
That’s a paranoid and particularly uncharitable view which ignores the perfectly valid reasons that it’s best the system behaves as it does.
The human has responsibility for the safe operation of the vehicle, whether they step up and fulfill it or not. If they don’t fulfill their responsibility, all bets are off.
There is no other (equally good or better) way this could work in practice. You can imagine other ways, and I’m guessing you will, but they are imaginary, not practical.
> I'd expect that the system would slam on the brakes
It can and it does, even while they autopilot system is disabled. Who said it wouldn’t?
You should learn more about the cars before hardening your opinions so much.
I doubt its paranoid, I am not worried about it, just rather annoyed that driver's aids are being marketed as something they are not, cheapening an entire industry.
> There is no other (equally good or better) way this could work in practice.
We are literally discussing a company that has another way.
you should be paying attention, but you are not. Human attention is a difficult thing. from what I recall, in a driving it takes about 7-14 seconds to re-gain situational awareness. This means that 1 second isn't enough.
> Like "a Prius driver drove off a bridge and is now landing on our hood." Of course the system will disable itself in that situation;
I'd expect that the system would slam on the brakes, not disengage to avoid liability. Thats the point here, its not about tech, its about legality. Thats the worse part, the entire system appears to be designed to stop tesla being taken to court.