[Dprglist] Tesla

[Rud Merriam]

Any driving system, even a human, is going to be incomplete. People fall 
asleep, which causes accidents.

Your statements imply that the robot system has to be perfect before 
deployment and use. Or even nearly perfect. If that's true you'll never 
get automatic driving on the road.

The other point missing is the trade offs. This report or others said 
that Tesla's have a much lower, like 50%, accident rate than other 
vehicles because of the auto driving capability. The trade off is death 
from this scenario versus deaths from other scenarios that the vehicle 
avoided.



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*Rud Merriam K5RUD*
/Mystic Lake Software/ <http://mysticlakesoftware.com/>
/Hackaday Contributor/ <http://hackaday.com/>


On 01/25/2017 10:21 AM, David Anderson wrote:
>
> Dave Ackley sends along the following link.
>
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/safety/feds-call-teslas-autopilot-safe/?utm_source=TandM&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=TM0124201 
> <http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/safety/feds-call-teslas-autopilot-safe/?utm_source=TandM&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=TM01242017>
>
> The key line, at least for me, is:
>
> "It concluded the automatic emergency braking system (AEB) was not to 
> blame because it hadn’t been designed for such a scenario."
>
> So, that's how they're going to weasel out of it.
>
> Take hope!  Your robot's failure at the contest was not a failure at 
> all.  It was simply not "designed for such a scenario" and therefore 
> was actually a success!
>
> And that baby carriage the car ran over?  Not a problem.   Not 
> designed for that scenario.   The fault is the driver's, for putting 
> the car in that position.  Or perhaps for not purchasing the "baby 
> carriage avoidance package."
>
> Anyway, all those millions of edge cases we were worried about turn 
> out not to be a problem!   Or at least not Tesla's problem...
>
> onward,
> dpa
>
>
>
>
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