<story><title>Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/tesla-that-crashed-in-autopilot-mode-sped-up-before-hitting-truck-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cynix</author><text>The same way traditional cruise control reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the accelerator pedal using your leg&amp;#x2F;foot, Autopilot reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the steering wheel using your arms&amp;#x2F;hands.</text></item><item><author>abalone</author><text>Help me understand. How does it lower the strain of driving if you have to remain 100% as attentive anyway? Or are you actually less than 100%.</text></item><item><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>After talking to quite a few drivers and driving thousands of miles on Auotopilot myself, I don’t think people are confused by the name. It is pretty clear very quickly what the car can or can’t do. I think people are poor at estimating risk and we would have these accident whatever you call these semi-autonomous features. The interesting thing for me is that despite the shortcomings of the current Autopilot, I wouldn’t go back to a car without. It lowers the strain of driving sufficiently to really be worth it. And I am a driver with a hand on the wheel and eyes on the traffic, all the time.</text></item><item><author>tobyhinloopen</author><text>Tesla has no autopilot or self driving capabilities. It is just something called Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Assist in other vehicles with some minor additions. Tesla’s marketing gives the impression that it is much more, but it isn’t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>234998234</author><text>&amp;gt;allowing you to not constantly exert force on the steering wheel using your arms&amp;#x2F;hands.&lt;p&gt;This is not the benefit of autopilot because this task requires virtually no effort to begin with and you still need your hands on the wheel anyway. The real strain in driving is the mental strain, and that is why people turn it on.&lt;p&gt;The reality is that Telsa is using humans to iron out the bugs in their fully autonomous vehicles and legal clauses to get them out of the fact that they are killing people.&lt;p&gt;I have a car with all of those new safety features like warnings about cars to your side as you change lanes, warnings about cars driving past as you reverse out of a car park and so on. The reality is that you stop performing the roles that the car starts performing. You stop looking as much when you reverse out of a car park because you trust the beeping noise will occur if a car is coming along, and so on.&lt;p&gt;It is just human nature to start relying on something that works every time you use it. I don&amp;#x27;t really feel sorry for anyone driving a tesla though. They are the ones choosing to be Tesla&amp;#x27;s bug testers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/tesla-that-crashed-in-autopilot-mode-sped-up-before-hitting-truck-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cynix</author><text>The same way traditional cruise control reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the accelerator pedal using your leg&amp;#x2F;foot, Autopilot reduces the strain of driving by allowing you to not constantly exert force on the steering wheel using your arms&amp;#x2F;hands.</text></item><item><author>abalone</author><text>Help me understand. How does it lower the strain of driving if you have to remain 100% as attentive anyway? Or are you actually less than 100%.</text></item><item><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>After talking to quite a few drivers and driving thousands of miles on Auotopilot myself, I don’t think people are confused by the name. It is pretty clear very quickly what the car can or can’t do. I think people are poor at estimating risk and we would have these accident whatever you call these semi-autonomous features. The interesting thing for me is that despite the shortcomings of the current Autopilot, I wouldn’t go back to a car without. It lowers the strain of driving sufficiently to really be worth it. And I am a driver with a hand on the wheel and eyes on the traffic, all the time.</text></item><item><author>tobyhinloopen</author><text>Tesla has no autopilot or self driving capabilities. It is just something called Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Assist in other vehicles with some minor additions. Tesla’s marketing gives the impression that it is much more, but it isn’t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>I find the benefit of cruise control is that in normal situations in country driving (over 90% of my driving) I can now &lt;i&gt;completely&lt;/i&gt; ignore the speedometer, and consequently the entire dashboard, and don’t need to worry about adjusting my foot on the accelerator pedal to match the speed limit. Cruise control thus allowed me to focus more fully on the road, and increased my perceived safety.</text></comment>