1y ago

Most Americans Wary of Self-Driving Cars as Trust in Tesla Wanes: Study

www.thedrive.com

Self-driving tech is widely distrusted by the public, and Tesla's huge Autopilot recall and Cruise's scandals don't seem to have helped.

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That's because Teslas aren't autonomous vehicles. They're just calling lane assist features self-driving.
A true self-driving vehicle wouldn't need a human watching it.
- Even the more advanced cars, the so called level 3 cars that have come out in last year (Tesla I believe is still the lower rated level 2) do not do as much as people think. And even the Level 3 cars I have tried suffer from a serious drawback in that they essentially will ditch self-driving with little warning in populated areas. In the burbs and country with straight highways the vehicles can do alright and/or enough to convince people they are FSD. In city areas I have seen vehicles lose GPS-lock and unable to read the lane markings just kick out of self driving mode, which can happen semi-often around large trucks and heavy bridges, a life or death situation if you weren’t paying attention or stupid enough to sit in the back for a tiktok.
Maybe they should try public transportation instead.
It’s been 2667 days since Musk promised fully autonomous cross country trips: https://elonmusk.today/#autonomous-cross-country-trip
And 2954 days since he promised cross country summons: https://elonmusk.today/#cross-country-summons
Tesla's make driving on the roads dangerous. Was driving on a highway (2 lane) passed a vehicle that was going a bit slow, and was going past a off ramp. Decided to merge back behind a car going approx the same speed as I was starting to merge back the bloody car saw a speed limit sign and started braking. I nearly rear ended the fucking Tesla. Got a video too.
The first day I got my dash cam, was winter and roads had just been plowed, so there is a approx car width wide if salt/sand in the middle of the road. On my way to work was coming down a hill on my side of the road, coming up the hill, was a Tesla SUV driving all 4 wheels on the sand (aka on the yellow line)
Both cars and drivers are brain dead
- That's on you for not maintaining a safe distance, not the car for obeying speed limit signs.
  
  That's not it m8, the average speed on the 401 is 120kph on slow days 130 typical and speed limit is 100. And suddenly having a vehicle drop from 130 to 100 because it saw a sign is fucking dangerous.
  The Tesla was doing about 125 or so when I started merging and I was 3 car lengths behind them, then randomly braked when there was nothing in front of em.
  There is nothing safe about abrupt actions which those POS do all the time
Self driving tech is pretty good and getting better at an insane rate. I think people only distrust it because of bad media reporting.
- I don't trust it because musk lies all the time. It may work fine, but you can't tell lies like he does and expect people to believe you this time.
  
  I don't trust it because they can't even get the car part of self driving car right.
  
  Self driving tech isn't only tesla. There are many implementations and they are pretty amazing in my opinion.

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