Tesla driver in fatal 'Autopilot' crash got numerous warnings: U.S. government - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;52382606]I agree with reagy. If you're being stupid and not paying attention to the road in your car while posting on a forum of all places, you're really not endangering only your own life but others as well. You miss the point entirely with that writing, everyone is going to be distracted sometime, but when you're literally watching a screen instead of your road that's just reckless at the highest degree. And your argument against it being an issue because it's not against the law is dumb as well. It's literally a strawman and cherry picking.[/QUOTE] My argument wasn't that it was a good idea to do, as I stated in that post. Nor was my argument that it was OK because there was no law. My argument was that you can actually type a sentence on your phone with little to no distraction and looking away because of things like autocorrect and swipe-typing. I do it while walking, or talking with someone and not breaking eye contact. Don't text and drive, wear your seatbelt, duh. But don't assume that just because you have a phone in your hand that it is a vicious blackhole of attention. Not sure how much more clear I can make that.

[QUOTE=Revenge282;52382652]My argument wasn't that it was a good idea to do, as I stated in that post. Nor was my argument that it was OK because there was no law. My argument was that you can actually type a sentence on your phone with little to no distraction and looking away because of things like autocorrect and swipe-typing. I do it while walking, or talking with someone and not breaking eye contact. Don't text and drive, wear your seatbelt, duh. But don't assume that just because you have a phone in your hand that it is a vicious blackhole of attention. Not sure how much more clear I can make that.[/QUOTE] It seems to me that you are trying to qualify the use of a cell and also justify it. It's dangerous and reckless to do. Distracted driving is literally more dangerous than driving drunk.

Just to clarify, I was eating lunch when I posted that :v: [Sp] eating lunch while driving that is muahahaha[/sp] [editline]20th June 2017[/editline] [sp] but not really [/sp]

[QUOTE=TestECull;52381405]What a lazy dumbass. Kinda reinforces one of my main points against self driving cars, too. We are already seeing people drop all responsibility for these things and we still dont have true self driving cars yet.[/QUOTE] People like you said the same shit about automatic transmissions and cruise control. Please do tell me more about how having to manually maintain your speed is somehow indicative of being a better driver too.

I love how many people in this thread don't realize that a tesla can see a crash happening before a human can

was the victim the same person who got saved multiple times by the autopilot before ? even posted videos of those

[QUOTE=Dwarden;52384183]was the victim the same person who got saved multiple times by the autopilot before ? even posted videos of those[/QUOTE] At least once: [video]https://youtu.be/y4bQBJ2Cfqk[/video]

[QUOTE=J!NX;52383991]I love how many people in this thread don't realize that a tesla can see a crash happening before a human can[/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APnN2mClkmk[/media] IIRC the fatal accident happened with the older autopilot that couldn't bounce the radar beams under cars. The reason the crash happened was because the Tesla assumed the trailer was a overhead road sign because it was turning across the lanes and the radars were going under it instead of bouncing off it like a car.

[QUOTE=OvB;52384365][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APnN2mClkmk[/media] IIRC the fatal accident happened with the older autopilot that couldn't bounce the radar beams under cars. The reason the crash happened was because the Tesla assumed the trailer was a overhead road sign because it was turning across the lanes and the radars were going under it instead of bouncing off it like a car.[/QUOTE] At the time AP didn't use radar independently at all. It was only acted on when the camera verified the object as well. Mobileyes system didn't recognise vehicles from the side. The radar saw the truck as an obstacle but the camera didn't so no action was taken. Radar is now acted upon even when the camera fails to see the object, after Tesla made significant improvements to it.