On Thursday, NHTSA said it had discovered in 16 separate instances when this occurred that Autopilot “aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact,” suggesting the driver was not prepared to assume full control over the vehicle.
CEO Elon Musk has often claimed that accidents cannot be the fault of the company, as data it extracted invariably showed Autopilot was not active in the moment of the collision.
Honestly, I expected this from Day 1, and it’s the right thing to do.
People don’t understand how hard automation that has to work is. It’s easy when it’s a chatbot and you just chuckle when it gets things wrong, but it’s not so easy when you kill a family of 6 when you get it wrong.
Our trains aren’t even automated yet. If we can’t automate our trains I’m not sure why we are starting with cars.
