We cannot expect humans to be able to pay attention and be able to take over at a moment's notice at all times, simply because that's not how our brains work.
Autopilot is in the danger zone, where it's good enough to make your brain relax, but it's bad enough to require your brain to not do that. So it's fundamentally unsafe.
Cruise control in contrast isn't good enough so your brain will have to pay attention, otherwise you'll crash very quickly.
And this is all made much, much worse by Elon's and Tesla's irresponsible marketing, and the believers who dismiss this as a "worthless discussion".
> We cannot expect humans to be able to pay attention and be able to take over at a moment's notice at all times
And yet, this is what ordinary driving requires already. It's not a new requirement. The whole point of this investigation is to figure out the matter of whether a SAE Level 2 ADAS really makes distracted driving more likely. The jury is still out on that, and even if it does it would be reasonably easy to cope with the problem by tuning the system to alert the driver more frequently, especially ahead of impending danger (such as in low visibility conditions, which are expressly mentioned as a key factor in these crashes).
> We cannot expect humans to be able to pay attention and be able to take over at a moment's notice at all times, simply because that's not how our brains work.
Plus, it will always give you the control back in the most difficult situation you can ever encounter as a driver. It's already an emergency, the computer threw a fit and doesn't want to deal with it.
You're on your own, you have 10 seconds, all the best! Better get it right the first time.
We cannot expect humans to be able to pay attention and be able to take over at a moment's notice at all times, simply because that's not how our brains work.
Autopilot is in the danger zone, where it's good enough to make your brain relax, but it's bad enough to require your brain to not do that. So it's fundamentally unsafe.
Cruise control in contrast isn't good enough so your brain will have to pay attention, otherwise you'll crash very quickly.
And this is all made much, much worse by Elon's and Tesla's irresponsible marketing, and the believers who dismiss this as a "worthless discussion".