Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads

I lost all trust in their 'Autopilot' the day I read Musk said (Paraphrasing) "All we need are cameras, there's no need for secondary/tertiary LIDAR or other expensive setups"

Like TFYM? No backups?? Or backups to the backups?? On a life fucking critical system?!

No shit

Isn't this already an established fact?

Is it really whistleblowing if what they're leaking is already common knowledge?

Unfortunately this is one of those things that you can't significantly develop/test on closed private streets. They need the scale, and the public traffic, and the idiots in the drunkards and the kids speeding. The only thing that's going to stop them from working on autopilot will be that it's no longer financially reasonable to keep going. Even a couple handfuls of deaths aren't going to stop them.

Tesla "autopilot" averages one airbag deployment every five million miles.

The average driver in the U.S. averages one every 600,000 miles.

Idk. Doesn't seem like it works perfectly, but it does seem to work pretty well.

He says this yet they're already out on the roads logging millions of miles without any outsized danger. Just because we get sensational headlines about a driver behind the wheel who crashed into the side of a semi, doesn't mean they're any more dangerous than any other car. AFAIK Tesla still has far fewer wrecks than many others. These driving aids have a lot of room for improvement but they only need to be better than an average driver in order to reduce accidents.

I mean, are humans really any better?

Oh look; more FUD.

Gee thanks for reporting on the obvious, Jalponik.

We knew this. And even this whistleblower report is old.

What a garbage news outlet.