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All that matters is, did the technology fail. I don't care about crash rates in other cars, if the impact had been different, the only fact that matters in this case is, did the tech fail. If so then is it safe to leave on or should it be disabled across the board until it cannot fail this scenario again.

one failure and they will take a minor publicity and money hit, two and its going to devastating

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Whether it performed as designed or not really isn't relevant. The salient point here is Tesla's promotion of an "auto-pilot" system that encourages users to take their attention off of the road and put too much faith in a glorified lane-following system.

Now, this is pure speculation, but I really can't imagine running into the side of an 18-wheeler crossing the highway unless A) I was traveling at a reckless speed (unlikely given that "auto-pilot" was on) or B) I wasn't paying attention to the road.

For one thing, it lookslike the car kept driving after the crash, hit 2 fences and a pole, then tried to get back on the road before it shut down. Sounds like pretty big screwup.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2016/0...

Well again, the Tesla autopilot is not a google car AI pilot system.

IMO, human (customers') expectations require more than a mere autopilot.

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