That leaves it to consumers and regulators. As consumers we can stop getting caught up in Musk's persona, and stop buying a dangerous product. And regulators should start doing their job for the first time in many years.
You're describing a flawed overall system. It has to be nearly perfect or it would be better not to exist at all. Middle ground is incompatible with our minds. You are asking for the impossible.
Or would that just train us to ignore the ‘take over tone’?
> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.
[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
Most planes today can land themselves, yet pilots still often land manually to keep their attention and skills sharp. Tesla drivers which make use of Autopilot should consider doing the same -- since ultimately it's their ass on the line for now.
I highly doubt Tesla will start putting drivers through several hundreds of hours of training every year (let alone pay them 6/7 figure salaries) to have properly safe and trained drivers in their cars.
>* "Your brain cannot turn off habituation'
The entire argument falls apart, and quickly. If the statement 'its the drivers responsibility' relies on us completely ignoring human behaviours and patterns.
People are falliable, and encouraging people to not concentrate and put trust into auto-pilot, and knowing with every kilometre travelled. People concentrate less and less. Who is at fault when the car misbehaves and breaks away from expected behaviours?
So when Tesla says[1]:
> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.
The "legal reason" for having a person in the driver seat is so that they can act as a liability shield for Tesla?
[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
That is a specific marketing video from five years ago. The current system has basically nothing in common with what is shown there, hardware or software wise.
> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.
Does it say that in the Autopilot terms of use? Maybe the owner's manual?
No, I made two distinctively different comments, but used the same quote from Tesla in them, which is the same quote you've just quoted yourself.
> That is a specific marketing video from five years ago. The current system has basically nothing in common with what is shown there, hardware or software wise.
So it got worse over the last 5 years? Because Tesla said the car was driving itself, but now you're saying that's not true, and there's nothing in common with them.
Selling FSD however is pure scam.
Cruise control only maintains velocity, lane assist still requires interventions when turns need to be made or lines are unclear. That sounds like intervention to me
"without the intervention of the pilot" is a pretty pivotal part of everyone else's understanding of the word.
1. The feature marketed as "autopilot" on airliners is accurately named
2. The human pilots of airliners need to keep paying attention even when autopilot is active
Isn't that exactly analogous to how it works in a Tesla? Why do you then say "it definitely isn't that"?
To me it seems likely that putting in HUD-type assistance would be safer than attempting self driving, which is more complicated than landing a plane.
For landing existing CAT III landing will complete the entire landing and rollout. Failures (e.g. loss of a flight computer or sensor problems) that would lock out CAT III autoland would likewise rule out attempts in a HUD.
The reason you don't see much real CAT IIIc bad weather landing isn't that it can't work or HUDs would be better, the problem is that sure, now you're safely on the ground but with zero visibility you're stuck on a runway, you can't very well taxi a jetliner when you can't see the concrete you're on let alone the signs and lights. Even a follow-me car won't help, you can't see it.
Garmin's emergency autoland for GA pilots has the same problem, but since it's an emergency feature "Oh dear we took an entire airport out of service for an hour" is an acceptable consequence. The alternative may well have been fatal in that case.
Anyway, people have added e.g. enhanced visibility and highway edge marker HUDs to high end vehicles before. But, that's going to be something you need to train with in order to use it effectively. An airline would send crew on the recommended two week course before they're allowed to fly the modified plane, but we know even private pilots routinely avoid recommended manufacturer training, and cars would definitely be worse. My guess: Tesla would sell a thousand cars with a HUD, fifty drivers would take the free training, ten of them would come away having learnt anything. All one thousand owners would be confident they can now drive at 60mph in dense fog even though the training said "You definitely must not drive at 60mph in dense fog".