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Sure, I can acknowledge that the software should have reacted here, but so should've the driver. The driver is responsible for the vehicle and Tesla are clear about this. I don't think it's valid to blame inattentiveness on Autopilot either.

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So you're ignoring all the points of the video? That autopilot lulls the human brain slowly away from attention even with knowledge of its necessity?

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.

Oh gosh no. I can see it now, google self driving car with built in “captcha” where it checks your response time to the “fire drill” alert tone to take over driving. That’ll train us. Probably the perfect time to show an advert too. Our attention is pulled, and the adrenaline is pumping…

Or would that just train us to ignore the ‘take over tone’?

Google dropped this approach a long time ago precisely because of this problem: their employees were zoning out

What is your point? If the car is actually self driving, then there is no need for human interaction. The issue is this is not, therefore the driver still needs to be engaged enough to respond

Sorry, no strong point. I was just pondering that the issue is inattention, and imagining google, who spends the most money, ever, on capturing human attention, taking the next dystopian step.

The deer is already hit by the time the driver reacts.

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