Tesla auto-pilot fatality
Jul. 2nd, 2016 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birguslatroThe first fatality involving an auto-piloted car occurred last month...
https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss
It was of course inevitable there would be a death involving an auto-piloted car one day. You can't draw any firm conclusions about how safe auto-piloted Teslas are from this though. Is 130 million miles until the first death better or worse than what you should expect? We won't know that until many more millions of miles have been driven under auto-pilot.
Questions have been asked about Tesla referring to the auto-pilot system as a 'beta'. With software, that can mean use with caution, which is obviously how they felt drivers should be using it. Regardless of how well something is tested before the public uses it, there is always a time when the public does start to use it, at which point you will find out how it works in the real world. That can't be avoided. However, if you feel the need to call a feature that could have life or death consequences a beta, then it probably shouldn't be released yet.
https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tragic-loss
It was of course inevitable there would be a death involving an auto-piloted car one day. You can't draw any firm conclusions about how safe auto-piloted Teslas are from this though. Is 130 million miles until the first death better or worse than what you should expect? We won't know that until many more millions of miles have been driven under auto-pilot.
Questions have been asked about Tesla referring to the auto-pilot system as a 'beta'. With software, that can mean use with caution, which is obviously how they felt drivers should be using it. Regardless of how well something is tested before the public uses it, there is always a time when the public does start to use it, at which point you will find out how it works in the real world. That can't be avoided. However, if you feel the need to call a feature that could have life or death consequences a beta, then it probably shouldn't be released yet.