https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bmw-ix-with-an-autonomous...
It was a test EV with level two autonomy (driver is always in control) features that are currently in production vehicles. It sounds like the test driver's family was in the car as well.
I hope everyone is as well as can be. Having media attention like this focused on an apparent driving error must be terrible.
The autonomous driving label was probably on the car to comply with a German privacy law.
(In many ways, L2 is just about the dumbest imaginable level of automation)
Except that it literally helps 100000s of people make their drives more enjoyable and is perfectly fine in a in many situations.
That doesn't work for me. The car was clearly "self driving" when it crossed the lane line. Even at very slow speeds that can be deadly because we're talking about something that can happen in less than a second or two.
You cannot tell someone "this car can drive itself but you must be ready to take control at all times because if it fails it's your fault" while knowing that a failure can happen in less than a second.
From what I've found you're more than twice as likely to get into a wreck when using this tech.
Literally not a scrap of proof that is the case here and yet you are willing to state it as fact.
> From what I've found you're more than twice as likely to get into a wreck when using this tech.
Source? This smells like FUD.
https://getjerry.com/questions/how-many-fatalities-have-been...
> Stats estimate that per million miles driven, there are 9.1 self-driving car accidents, whereas there are only 4.1 crashes per million miles driven with human-operated vehicles.
What stats? Where are these stats?
Also the type/severity of accident matters here as well which further muddies the water. All that said I'm not willing to accept the status quo just because the new tech has caused a few deaths (5 according to the link you provided) since the status quo is 30-40K/year [0]. Obviously the important stat is a per-capita-type number that gives us "deaths per car of a given automation level, 0-5".
[0] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Because it's impossible the driver was driving it manually and made a mistake?
It's entirely possible that this was indeed a testing incident (although late afternoon and family with the driver doesn't sound like it, could still be), but we do not know that yet.
I'd wager 10-to-1 odds this was an active mistake by the driver. It is possible, however, that the car was in lane-following mode and got horribly confused (in which case, it is still a mistake by the driver, just different).
You can; you only need to be powerful enough to dilute responsibly for failures enough to get away with it. It is self evident that the margin for error is too small to rely on human intervention. It is absurd to expect humans to maintain the equivalent of manual driving situational awareness at all times. But when you're hell bent on selling automated driving you lose the capability of grasping these things.