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Your car has accelerated into a person many times and yet you continue to use this feature/car?

Find me a car with autonomous capabilities (e.g. adaptive cruise control) that never does it, and I'll consider it.

As all car manufacturers point out: A prerequisite to enabling any safety mechanism is that the driver overrides when it fails. This includes blind spot detection, lane drift detection/correction, and adaptive cruise control. It is understood that when I enable it, I'm responsible for its behavior given that I can override it.

But that's all an aside. The point isn't that I continue to drive it, but that this is not something special about Teslas.

We are probably in the weeds here but there is a difference between notification safety mechanisms and ones that take action. And to get really pedantic, emergency breaking doesn't permit user override (either functionally or simply because of how abrupt it is).

And autonomy features are a different domain altogether.

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