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When Elon Musk said real world testing was needed, I assumed it would be Tesla test cars with trained ‘drivers’ not beta testing guineapigs.

Given that there’s regular stories of people playing phone games and crashing whilst using the current lane assist tech, are we safe?

‘Real-world testing was needed to uncover what would be a "long tail" of problems, he added.’

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53349313

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> When Elon Musk said real world testing was needed, I assumed it would be Tesla test cars with trained ‘drivers’ not beta testing guineapigs.

Cynical view - it's being tested by twitter users who are on good terms with a company, with an explicit goal of generating more hype for Tesla.

Its definitely going to be real world drivers who opt in at their own risk. My understanding is that Tesla views its large number of cars as a test ground to get to level 5 autonomy. It will slowly roll out more and more autonomous functionality and incrementally get there. You simply cannot solve the tail end of issues with test driving alone.

> drivers who opt in at their own risk

If it was actually just at their own risk, it would be substantially less bad. They opt in at their own risk, and at the risk of those around them.

I learned that Teslas had some self driving functionality by seeing obviously inattentive drivers in them.

While on the road I try to stay as far away from any tesla as I can.

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