Accidents without AP vs Accidents with AP isn't what's interesting.
Accidents without AP's overreaching half-baked features meant to serve as a marketing gimmick, but with safety technology that's been iterated for almost 20 years like LKAS and AEB, and is now getting affordable, is what's interesting.
Now a Corolla, the most conservative car in the history of mainstream cars, can return you to your lane and warn you if it feels you're making too many mistakes due to being tired.
These features save lives when they work, and more importantly, do not kill you when they malfunction, and do not lull you into a false sense of safety nearly as actively as a system literally named "Autopilot".
AP could literally be the same system, not pretend that lane centering is so easy to do, be much more aggressive about disengaging like other manufacturers (see SuperCruise, which literally tracks your eyes to ensure focus is maintained), and be infinitely more palatable an experiment than it currently is
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If it seems I'm being aggressively anti-AP here, it's because I didn't sign up to be a part of this beta, yet I have to drive on the road with these people.
I like that a bored developer can't push updates to the lane guidance in my cars. AP has had regressions that brought back deadly bugs.
I'll take a crusty system that was put through thousands of hours of testing then never "improved" again over that any day.
Accidents without AP's overreaching half-baked features meant to serve as a marketing gimmick, but with safety technology that's been iterated for almost 20 years like LKAS and AEB, and is now getting affordable, is what's interesting.
Now a Corolla, the most conservative car in the history of mainstream cars, can return you to your lane and warn you if it feels you're making too many mistakes due to being tired.
These features save lives when they work, and more importantly, do not kill you when they malfunction, and do not lull you into a false sense of safety nearly as actively as a system literally named "Autopilot".
AP could literally be the same system, not pretend that lane centering is so easy to do, be much more aggressive about disengaging like other manufacturers (see SuperCruise, which literally tracks your eyes to ensure focus is maintained), and be infinitely more palatable an experiment than it currently is
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If it seems I'm being aggressively anti-AP here, it's because I didn't sign up to be a part of this beta, yet I have to drive on the road with these people.
I like that a bored developer can't push updates to the lane guidance in my cars. AP has had regressions that brought back deadly bugs.
I'll take a crusty system that was put through thousands of hours of testing then never "improved" again over that any day.