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Home Posts tagged "Tesla Autopilot"

Tag: Tesla Autopilot

Tesla Autopilot danger from “passive vigilance” effect

October 24, 2020 May 11, 2022

NTSB warns that Tesla Autopilot induces passive vigilance effect that can distract drivers away from driving their car

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Elon Musk claims Tesla Autopilot drivers less mentally fatigued after long drives

March 26, 2019 March 26, 2019

How much is “peace of mind” worth on your daily commute? If you arrive at the office well rested, or arrive home well rested, even after a 50 mile grind through logjammed traffic, is that “well rested” state justification for paying a premium price for a car? Tesla’s CEO Elon…

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Misplaced trust in driver assist (Tesla Autopilot) systems can cause huge problems

June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018

Tesla may be rushing too quickly with the autopilot feature, or else not doing a good-enough job of educating Tesla car owners on safe use of Tesla’s autopilot.  In light of several crashes while autopilot was engaged, and reports by Tesla car owners of several modes where autopilot clearly does…

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Chinese Model S auto-pilot crash says we shouldn’t rely on autopilot mode, yet

September 14, 2016 September 14, 2016

There have been several one or two fatalities this year of Tesla Model S drivers who were perhaps overly trusting the autopilot mode.  In January 2016, well before the well-known crash in Florida, a fatality occurred when a Tesla Model S drove into the back of a street sweeper truck.  Going by…

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Tesla Model S autopilot crash in Netherlands begs buggy software question

January 13, 2016 January 13, 2016

Any autonomous driving system relies on the correct software functioning.  As we all know, any software has bugs in it, even software that has seen “lots” of testing.  In the rush to add autonomous driving to cars (zero fatalities zero emissions is the Nissan/Renault pledge) may produce an unexpected result.…

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Tesla Motors 7.1 software update a baby step to… an autonomous robotaxi service?

January 10, 2016 January 10, 2016
Tesla Model S

Along with releasing the Tesla Model S/X version 7.1 update, an online press conference was held this morning in which Elon Musk said some crazy things that might just become true.  We have to wonder if some of the things which are possible are in fact desirable.  Namely – most…

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Tesla Model S/X 7.1 update adds self parking, summoning features

January 10, 2016 January 10, 2016

Tesla Motors is incrementally adding more autopilot autonomous driving features to the Model S and Model X.  With the 7.1 update just released, the car will detect the ability to autopark into a space while driving through parking lots, and can drive itself (unoccupied) in and out of a garage.…

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WARNING: Tesla Autopilot mode is not full autonomous driving, pay attention while “driving”

October 29, 2015 October 29, 2015

How good is the Tesla Autopilot feature?  This feature was rolled out to Tesla Model S owners over the last couple weeks, and marks a large advance towards fully autonomous vehicles.  Since then some Model S owners have posted videos of the autopilot system doing amazingly good things, and also…

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