Impressive if it actually ships. Level 3 is really where things start to get real in terms of liability for the manufacturer.
The human in the front seat of a L3 car isn't the driver. They're the scapegoat.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/154193121360142...
I am really happy that they have the gusto to push things forward, if it weren't for them we wouldn’t have an EV race, a autonomy race, a rocket race.
This may be interpreted as the purchaser accepting known risks from a product, but no such consent exists from those around the car. Safety standards exist to protect people outside the car as well as inside, and may not be unilaterally waived on the part of those inside the car. Even assuming that the purchaser is fully informed about the risks when given consent, and is not misled by Tesla's erroneous use of "Full Autopilot" to describe something that requires continuous human oversight, not even that shred of consent exists from pedestrians struck/killed by self-driving cars (e.g. link below).
https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-lawsuit-model-x-autopilot-fat...
Polar opposite of what Tesla is doing. If they can't match this, that's the whole German fsd market gone for them, possibly whole EU, as they will harmonize the Requirements.
Do you have a link that leads to that actual study?
Found it, though unfortunately I couldn't find any non-paywall links.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/154193121360142...
For a given set of parameters (car/driver/environment) it gets to an accident every X miles causing Y$ in damage. This Y$ is paid out by pool of insurance money which a group of owners have already paid for.
Self Driving car is no different. In fact, the Car manufacturers will have more data to ascertain the 'blame' and fewer accidents every X miles and they can actually insure the drivers directly at a much lower rate. Car manufacturers will pay the much lower Y$ from this insurance pool
"More self driving capabilities means fewer crashes per mile which means they're cheaper to insure" hasn't really panned out with Teslas.
In 2018, Teslas had three times the fatality per mile rate of similar luxury cars: https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...
Teslas are also ludicrously more expensive to repair, and often parts availability is so bad that cars are "totaled" or the owner gets stuck in limbo - the insurance company says "well, we're happy to pay out, when you get the repair done..." and Tesla body shops and service centers have months long backups.
Result? Teslas, despite getting into fewer crashes per mile than the average, are much more expensive to insure than other cars.
The full self driving "beta" looks to be even worse, from sampling a couple of youtube videos of it "driving."
The average age of a car in the US is 12 years old, by the way, which significantly skews things away from all the cars that have ADAS features)
I'd imagine insurance companies have something similar internally when calculating premiums, as a $1,000 20yo Toyota involved in an accident could cause the same amount of damage as a $150,000 Mercedes with this tech to others.
That would be the part that would become cheaper as they will see over 1,000,000 miles the Toyota would have a higher rate of incidents than the Mercedes which has all these safety features (if it does what it says).
If your insurance also covers damages to your own vehicle, of course that's going to be more expensive, as repairs to the Mercedes will be much more expensive than the Toyota.
Insurance is great when you can't handle the cost of replacement.
That's why you don't buy insurance every time you buy a $100 electronic appliance. Now scale your money to a rich dude's money, you'll get the idea
I hear ya but at some point that's what administrative staff is there to handle.
Average age of a car in Britain is 8 years and it’s only recently got this high. I got given a 10 year old car a few years back and I paid to have it taken away by the time it was 12 years old because it was costing too much in repairs and I realised I would be spending the same money on car payments on a new car.
They'll only accept that if they can charge a subscription fee to car owners, and car owners are legally required to have an up to date subscription. There is no way manufacturers will take on the burden of insuring their cars voluntarily.
But once you’ve explicitly told the driver they don’t have to pay attention, you don’t have that excuse anymore.
No, only 6 years ago. In 2011 they hadn't even started selling the Model S.