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‘Boycott Tesla’ ads to air during Super Bowl — “Tesla dances away from liability in Autopilot crashes by pointing to a note buried deep in the owner’s manual, that says Autopilot is only safe on fr... (www.washingtonpost.com)
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‘Boycott Tesla’ ads to air during Super Bowl — “Tesla dances away from liability in Autopilot crashes by pointing to a note buried deep in the owner’s manual, that says Autopilot is only safe on fr...::undefined

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They aren't wrong. Camera systems do have a lot of issues. Calling someone stupid for pointing that out is absurd.

Cameras can mess up when they're dirty, when it's raining, when it's dark, when there's glare.

Image processing and recognition is also a hell of a lot slower and more computationally expensive than numbers from a LIDAR system.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Everybody is aware it's not going to be flawless out of the gate, or perhaps ever. That's not the point.

    They're saying using cameras and only cameras is a bad idea and makes "Autopilot" inherently subpar in situations where cameras don't work so well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When there are vision issues the car complains

    Except for when it doesn't and the car plows straight into the back of a lorry. Or runs over a teenager getting off a school bus. Etc.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, as per Tesla's marketing, they are driver replacements

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you serious?

    Autopilot

    Full Self Driving

    "Our cars will travel from the east coast to west coast of the US without any human intervention by 2017"

    "Your model 3 will be like an automated taxi earning money for you while you're not using it!"

    Etc.

    Tesla is always making out like their cars can drive themselves and it's just the law that's preventing cars from driving themselves about unaided.

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