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Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn (www.hngn.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The incident in northern California marked the latest mishap blamed on the electric vehicle company's Autopilot tech

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like driver assist is a better representation of what this feature is.

Gps autopilot on sail boats has been around for a long time now(not talking about windvane selfsteering) and it will keep course via the rudder, but if the wind changes it won't shift the sails so you still have to keep watch and either change the sails, or change course to follow the wind.
If you don't pay attention and the wind changes the sails start flapping and shit can get messy.

The point is that while car autopilot does match the definition of nautical autopilot and how it funtions(it needs human oversight) I would never expect someone who's never gone sailing with an autopilot device being used to know how it works and that someone needs to watch it and why. It's niche knowledge and kinda foolish to expect people to just know stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't expect random people to know, but the media who's reporting on it? Yes, I do expect that, and it's terrible reporting when they get it wrong. It just continues to spread incorrect information, which gets further turned into misinformation.

Also anyone who actually activates it in the car goes through the little how it works and what it's short falls are. If they didn't know prior, they'll know then, just like with boaters who learn how it works and what it's shortfalls are.