They aren't just using their own customers, they are using all of us.
The cars won't be just crashing into inanimate objects, but school buses and ambulances. The QA is being done to all of us and our loved ones near their cars.
I'm having a hard time parsing your double-negative, but when shadow mode is running, it's choices are back-tested in real-time with the driver's choices, so I'm not sure how this fails to replicate what a real-driver would have done in such scenarios.
e.g. You see the driver swerve for no apparent reason, did the driver simply drive more recklessly than the car would, or did they avoid an obstacle the model didn’t catch?
People get easily distracted, get excited, get tired, all of which are propitious to bad decision-making.
Many human drivers are downright dangerous, but that's not a reason to add dangerous machine drivers on the road, either.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xj73Q3lWvFM
It's been a problem for years now.
And FSD isn’t orders of magnitude safer. They are barely as good as human drivers and only in some conditions.
For the worst situations they aren’t comparable at all (since they won’t drive at all)
This must be repeated over and over for some reason: people will never accept self driving cars that are just as good or bad as human drivers. Nor should we. It’s a much too low bar.
Self driving cars will need to be orders of magnitude safer than human drivers to be even remotely acceptable.
I hate almost everything about Tesla and their business model but the idea of full automatic driving, once vetted to even a bare minimum level of approximate human parity, is enough to make me consider one anyway.
You are in between two walls and there are two straight lanes. Lane 1 has Tesla FSD coming in at full speed. Lane 2 has a human driver coming in at full speed. You can choose to be in one lane. The FSD and the human can both see you only 50 mts out and if they brake as soon as they see you, you will survive.
Which lane will you choose?