I'm not sure that's going to be any extra problem. Dodgy brakes,
steering, etc, are equally dangerous whether the car is driven by a
human or Autopilot.The new thing in these Teslas is sensors +
software. If the S+S are good, Autopilot won't do any worse in an
aging car, relatively speaking, than a human driver.
If anything, it will be much easier to roll out improvements to the
software. You can't easily replace a physical part in 3 million
five-year-old cars with a safer or sturdier design, but you can do
that with the OS.
I can picture the routine service involving both a full software
'check and repair' to make sure it's up to date and a kind of
regression test of the sensors. Your car could be put through a
standard suite of tests in a simulator and all the sensor readings and
software responses could be compared with expected norms. As arcane
driving scenarios are found to cause problems out in the real world,
new tests can added to the suite to check for them.
Warren, isn't this your department? Is this how it would work?
--- Stuart
----- Original Message -----
From: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To:"austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Sent:Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:13:33 +1000
Subject:atw: Re: OT I hate it when I am this right
It doesn't matter much. The cars are new. Wait till they start
aging.
On Friday, 1 July 2016, Stuart Burnfield wrote:
“This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles(209 million kilometers)
where Autopilot was activated,” the company said.million miles.
“Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94
Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 millionmiles,” it said.
