I'd imagine you are always responsible for what you do when you're driving, even if a system like autopilot is helping you drive.
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Especially cause autopilot disengages right before the accident so it's technically always your fault.
Yup gotta read the fine print
Except the autopilot will modify its data that it was turned off right at the moment it hits people...
Nah, it just disengages a fraction of a second before impact so they can claim "it wasn't engaged at the moment of impact, so not our responsibility."
There were rumours about this for ages, but I honestly didn't fully buy it until I saw it in Mark Rober's vison vs lidar video and various other follow-ups to it.
For fucking real??
It turns off, but it's likely so the AEB system can kick in.
AP and AEB are separate things.
Also all L2 crashes that involve an air bag deployment or fatality get reported if it was on within something like 30s before hand, assuming the OEM has the data to report, which Tesla does.
Rules are changing to lessen when it needs to be reported, so things like fender benders aren't necessarily going to be reported for L2 systems in the near future, but something like this would still be and alway has.
In my country it's always your fault. And I'm very glad.
Here in the US, even if the driver is found responsible it is often only a small fine ($500) and maybe a 30 day suspension for killing someone.
Tldr: Take the train and be safe.
Rant: In the EU, you are 35x more likely to die from a car crash, compared to a train crash. The union has created the so-called Vision Zero program, which is designed to reach zero driving deaths by some arbitrarily chosen date in the future. And of course it talks about autonomously driving cars. You know, crazy idea, but what if instead of we bet it all on some hypothetical magic Jesus technology that may or may not exist by the arbitrarily chosen date and instead focus on the real world solution that we already have? But well, the car industry investors would make less money, so I can answer that myself. :(
Edit: Also, Musk is a Nazi cunt who should die of cancer.
Speaking as a German: There are fewer train-related deaths because the trains don’t drive.
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We have Vision Zero in the US, too. They lowered speed limits in a couple neighborhoods from 25mph to 20, and all the LED road signs show annual aggregated deaths from car crashes until the number is greater than zero, then someone wrings their hands and says "Welp, we did what we could, guess people just like dying" and then goes on vacation. (Source: me, I made up the spokesperson who gets scapegoated, but all the other stuff is observationally evident where I live)
Does every single post related to cars have to turn into "don't use cars lol"???
It's kind of the natural result, because cars are good for:
- navigating a landscape designed to exclude anything but cars
- conspicuous consumption
- identity signaling
And they're really bad for:
- people
- the environment
- transportation
Do an honest evaluation, and "don't use cars" is the inevitable conclusion.
Too bad I live in hell country. Where there are no sidewalks or public transportation just roads and we have facist dipshits bought out by big car companies. I would love to take a train or a bus but that stuff doesn't exist here and never will until we re-educate and remake America from the ground up. America is just too far gone at this rate to even want these public transportation services at all or even bike-lanes. Cities would rather destroy themselves for big top stores anyway and highways thinking they are a good thing only to realize that will ensure they will cease to be alongside their local businesses. I'm sorry but I'm forced to walk on the road and nearly get run over legally speaking with zero repurcussions from the driver side because I shouldn't of been walking on the road anyway.
I've never been in the USA. Is it really that bad? I've heard that the USA have basically eradicated their own culture, because they destroyed their city centres in favour of suburbs, which need to be subsidised constantly. And therefore, cities sprawl. Is that true?
98% true.
(The other 2% is historic districts and college towns.)
In my city, there are buses, but because there's sprawl to the edges of the huge county, and all the people in the suburbs drive and don't want buses, and the county (not the city) is in charge of transportation, it's starved to the point of near impossible inconvenience.
There are plenty of people living inside the city now, we've got a nice downtown, with people living there, but at this point it's all set up to favor automobiles. Like I intentionally live in a short walk distance to bus stops that could get me anywhere the buses go, but I use the electric bike and can get anywhere faster than the bus. Transfers are so bad because the buses are so infrequent.
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Yes it is really this bad and in a lot of cities there is even anti homeless architecture being built. Entire cities in the United States basically got turned into suburbs and roads overnight. For many Americans they cannot even walk outside their neighborhood without having the police get called on them in their own suburban sprawl or getting a gun legally pulled on them and potentially legally killed with no recourse on the shooter. This country is hell on Earth minus our theme parks and local parks and some of the cities that still exist normally today.
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I think musk cunt should die of starvation.
Have you seen his human-growth-hormone belly? It would take years, man.
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Ha only if. Autopilot turns off right before a crash so that Tesla can claim it was off and blame it on the driver. Look it up.
Holy shit I did indeed look it up, and it's true. Dunno if it'll hold up but it's still shady as shit
Most states apply liability to whoever is in the driver seat anyway. If you are operating the vehicle, even if you're not controlling it at that moment, you are expected to maintain safe operation.
That's why the Uber self driving car that killed someone was considered the test driver's fault and left Uber mostly off the hook.
Not sure how it works for the robo taxis, though.
I don't know the specifics of how the law is implemented but the self driving levels are defined such that from SAE level 3 onward you may have a case against manufacturer. I haven't kept up to date with Tesla SAE level but I imagine they're still officially on level 2 because it lets them keep their hands clean.
Yeah that's gonna be tricky with those. I live in Vegas where they're already operating. No steering wheel at all.
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I didn't know this, but I'm not shocked, or even a little bit surprised.
Mark Rober had a video on autopilot of several cars and he used his Tesla. The car turned off the autopilot when he crashed through a styrofaom wall.
This is how they claim autopilot is safer than human drivers. In reality Tesla has one of the highest fatality rates but magically all of those happen when autopilot was "off"
It turns it off with the parking sensor 2ft before the accident.
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Just let it happen we are all going to die anyway
Made by someone who's able to THINK like a Tesla owner.
Brake pedal? Unthinkable
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Oh. A fine. How will Musk survive that financially?
He won't be fine...
Autopilot will turn off a few milliseconds before impact either way
Unironically this is a perfect example of why AI is being used to choose targets to murder in the Palestinian Genocide or in cases like DOGE attacking the functioning of the U.S. government, also US healthcare company claims of denial or collusion of landlord software to raise rent.
The economic function of AI is to abdicate responsibility for your actions so you can make a bit more money while hurting people, and until the public becomes crystal clear on that we are under a wild amount of danger.
Just substitute in for Elon the vague idea of a company that will become a legal and ethical escape goat for brutal choices by individual humans.
It reminds me of how apparently firing squad executions used to have only some of the guns loaded with live guns, and the rest with blanks. This way, the executioners could do some moral gymnastics to convince themselves that they hadn't just killed a person
Which is why we need laws about human responsibility for decisions made by AI (or software in general).
I did an internship at a bank way back, and my role involved a lot of processing of spreadsheets from different departments. I automated a heckton of that with Visual Basic, which my boss was okay with, but I was dismayed to learn that I wasn't saving anyone's time except my own, because after the internship was finished, all of the automation stuff would have to be deleted. The reason was because of a rule (I think a company policy rather than a law) that required that any code has to be the custody of someone, for accountability purposes — "accountability" in this case meaning "if we take unmaintained code for granted, then we may find an entire department's workflow crippled at some point in the future, with no-one knowing how it's meant to work".
It's quite a different thing than what you're talking about, but in terms of the implementation, it doesn't seem too far off.
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