I went to Joshua Brown’s video channel in youtube and notice he’s actually
posted many videos on autopilot: where it works well, where it doesn’t and so
on. It was obviously a subject of great interest to him and I’d imagine he
wouldn’t foolishly abdicate driver responsibility to autopilot when it didn’t
seem safe. Perhaps it was a case of unavoidable accident or just a very
unfortunate set of circumstances that caused autopilot to fail … time will tell.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLqNcKzWLAVb1Ez6SbshI7g.
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Friday, 1 July 2016 4:52 PM
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Cc: Warren Lewington
Subject: atw: Re: OT I hate it when I am this right
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
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It doesn't matter much. The cars are new. Wait till they start aging.
On Friday, 1 July 2016, Stuart Burnfield
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“This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles (209 million
kilometers)
where Autopilot was activated,” the company said.
“Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles.
Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles,” it said.
