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Just to be clear, I do think the obvious solution to terrible things like this is vastly expanded public transit so that people don't have to rely on cars to get everywhere, not overhyped technology and driving aids that are still only marginally better than a human driver. I just thought the article was interesting.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tesla gets telemetry that should show exactly what happened. We need to require that to be collected with each accident so someone can look for patterns and improvements.

But I’ll agree with the other guy that’s it’s still quite possible this is safer than human drivers already. It makes news because it seems like a ridiculous failure. But what happens when you compare it to the number of accidents caused by people falling asleep or getting distracted, or letting their rage out?

The critical data is the cost in human lives, and it’s quite possible for technology to fail spectacularly while saving lives overall

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Tesla self-driving failures are in a class of their own because the asshat in charge didn't want to outfit the cars with the needed sensors to provide reasonable self-driving capabilities.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Get the data. Get it without putting me and my family at risk.