Pay $200/mo for some software to endanger your life with no liability towards it's creator. Must be the worst deal of the century.
99% of the time it's great, and road trips on autopilot are so much more relaxing than in my previous ICE car. But that 1% is eventually gonna kill me via car crash or via heart attack.
I really only feel comfortable on autopilot during rush hour bumper to bumper traffic.
Only when Tesla can be sued by my insurance company if the car gets into a crash while on self-driving, will I trust that the appropriate due diligence was applied.
Ignore my anecdote, the data speaks for itself. GM ignition switch deficiencies GM covered up killed orders of magnitude more people (124).
It just has a lot of corner cases, untested even. This blind trust in SW and by extension, technology, is really exasperating.
Really curious, how would you quantify the reasonabl risk ? Should the risk be based on number of fatalities or on the number of potential fatalities that were averted ?
The data that you point to is about fatal crashes that made the news. What about all the cases that the SW malfunctioned and had a potential to be fatal ? Only tesla has that data or perhaps even they may not.
Un. Fucking. Believable.
As long as companies can use legalese to indemnify themselves this shit will continue ad infinitum.
Uber’s business model has been to cheat the system since day one, sidestepping the established laws covering commercial taxi and transportation services. They had enough time to establish their turf and revenues to fund their needed war chest, when they finally got sued by assorted municipality and governments. Then they drag things through the courts for as long as they can, lengthening their runway.
I would bet they are planning a similar strategy here. They likely have already done the math to show that it will be profitable any which way the wind blows.
At their scale of capitalization, legality is either entirely irrelevant or can be bought as a minor cost of doing business.