Tesla with autopilot slams into truck stopped at red light

[MindWars]

Tesla with Autopilot slams into truck stopped at red light - Breitbart
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A Tesla sedan with a semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has rear-ended a fire department truck at 60 mph (97 kph) apparently without braking before impact, but police say it’s unknown if the Autopilot feature was engaged.
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I wouldn't want one of these things if you gave it to me for free.

 

[there4eyeM]

Well, that was certainly uninformative.
Essentially, a vehicle had a rear end collision with another and we don't know why.
Thanks.

 

[toobfreak]

Tesla with Autopilot slams into truck stopped at red light - Breitbart
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A Tesla sedan with a semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has rear-ended a fire department truck at 60 mph (97 kph) apparently without braking before impact, but police say it’s unknown if the Autopilot feature was engaged.
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I wouldn't want one of these things if you gave it to me for free.

Hey, look at the bright side, at least the fire truck wasn't stopped at a GREEN light, and Tesla had the good sense to be sure that when their idiot cars self-destruct, there's not enough left of them to even tell if the autopilot was on. Another great victory for Elon Musk.

 

[miketx]

Very informative 60 mph = 97 k.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

One of these days, we will eliminate errors and wrecks by autonomous vehicles, just the way we have ended errors and wrecks by human drivers.

 

[toobfreak]

One of these days, we will eliminate errors and wrecks by autonomous vehicles, just the way we have ended errors and wrecks by human drivers.

Thank you. By that very same (modus tollens) logic, if we can justify accidents by machines saying that humans are not infallible either (the "we-all-make-mistakes" ruse), then we can hardly condemn gun makers and activist groups because of the inescapable mishandlings by a very few errant gun users.

But the point of making cars automated-computer controlled is that computers SHOULD be nearly infallible in this case and be able to see, and both recognize and stop for a stopped vehicle AT A RED LIGHT. If the Tesla fails at doing BOTH at the same time, it then becomes WORSE than a human distracted by a smartphone because we have no way of knowing if this was just an isolated fluke or a flaw endemic to the code or hardware of ALL these cars just waiting to cause deaths everywhere.

As such, the cars need pulled off the street until the cause found and corrected. These cars should have a black box in them from which the engineer can go back through the executions line by line to see just what the car saw and how it responded. But perhaps most disconcerting is that these cars ought to have redundancy at every level so that mistakes like these are next to impossible. This is just ONE CAR; can you imagine entire cities filled with highways full of these things with computers directing traffic at the individual, city street, intersection and city level?

 

[MindWars]

One of these days, we will eliminate errors and wrecks by autonomous vehicles, just the way we have ended errors and wrecks by human drivers.

Bet you won't say that when that car decides you DIE when if it were your choice you could save your own life.

Gawd dam you rks are indoctrinated as hell LOL.
According to multiple reports, the cars themselves are being designed to make so-called “moral” decisions which, in other words, means that the programming would essentially allow say a car full of people to crash rather than a school bus.

USA Today reports:

Consider this hypothetical:

It’s a bright, sunny day and you’re alone in your spanking new self-driving vehicle, sprinting along the two-lane Tunnel of Trees on M-119 high above Lake Michigan north of Harbor Springs. You’re sitting back, enjoying the view. You’re looking out through the trees, trying to get a glimpse of the crystal blue water below you, moving along at the 45-mile-an-hour speed limit.

As you approach a rise in the road, heading south, a school bus appears, driving north, one driven by a human, and it veers sharply toward you. There is no time to stop safely, and no time for you to take control of the car.

Does the car:

A. Swerve sharply into the trees, possibly killing you but possibly saving the bus and its occupants?

Self-Driving Cars And Deciding Who Lives And Dies: Your Family Could Be Sacrificed For The “Greater Good”