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Citing safety concerns, Autopilot company leaves Tesla
Topic Started: Sep 15 2016, 08:17 AM (182 Views)
George K
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http://gizmodo.com/autopilot-supplier-ends-relationship-with-tesla-over-sa-1786661938

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Mobileye is breaking up with Tesla. The Israel-based company helps Tesla build its Autopilot driver assistance systems, but on Thursday, the company’s chairman said Tesla was “pushing the envelope in terms of safety” and discontinued its relationship with the automaker.

In an interview with Reuters, Mobileye chairman and CTO Amnon Shashua said, “[Autopilot] is not designed to cover all possible crash situations in a safe manner... No matter how you spin it, [Autopilot] is not designed for that. It is a driver assistance system and not a driverless system.”

Mobileye’s decision to end its relationship with Tesla comes after several fatal crashes have raised questions about the safety of Tesla’s Autopilot technology. In June, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the first fatal crash while a driver was using autopilot mode.

This week, reports from China have surfaced that the first fatality involving the car’s Autopilot mode allegedly happened in January of this year, months before US regulators reported the first autopilot death. According to Chinese government news channel CCTV, a 23-year-old borrowed his father’s Tesla and slammed into a road sweeper on a highway about 300 miles south of Beijing. The TV report shows a dashcam of the driver cruising into a huge orange truck, and shows no signs of the driver jolting or hitting the brakes before impact—leaving many to believe he was using Autopilot mode.

Former employees have also voiced their concerns about the feature. In July, former Tesla Autopilot engineer Eric Meadows told CNN Money a story about testing the feature in Los Angeles in mid-2015 just before it launched to the public. He said he was pulled over by police on the suspicion that he was driving drunk while using Autopilot mode. He said the car was struggling to make sharp turns on its own.
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Mikhailoh
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We are a long, long way from driverless cars. I hope.
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Larry
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Driverless cars is a stupid idea.
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Mobileye’s decision to end its relationship with Tesla comes after several fatal crashes have raised questions about the safety of Tesla’s Autopilot technology. In June, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the first fatal crash while a driver was using autopilot mode.


Hmmm - 36000 people die in the US because of auto crashes every year. 26000 in Thailand. 6000 in Korea. Over 1,000,000 per year worldwide. And they are driver cars. Of course, the amount of miles driven by driverless cars is so small, it is difficult to draw a conclusion.

But, I see a lot of driver cars that are driven very, very, very, poorly. I am of the side that driverless cars will help this situation.

I think they are good idea, not only for safety, but also for elder people. One of the most difficult things for an elder person to give up is their ability to get around. Driverless cars will be a big help in this area.
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Driverless cars can only be truly viable with every car carrying a GPS locator, and a satellite system 10 times the size we have today.
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Larry
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The solution is simple: stop giving driver's licenses to people who can't drive. Spend the money necessary to set up a driverless system on more public transportation.

Just get the bad drivers and old people who shouldn't be driving in the first place off the roads.
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George K
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Add-on automatic driving.

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At TechCrunch Disrupt SF this year, famed iPhone and PlayStation hacker George Hotz unveiled the first official product of his automotive AI startup, Comma.ai. The Comma One is a $999 add-on shipping before the end of the year, with a $24 monthly subscription for its software, which Hotz says will be able to drive your car from Mountain View to San Francisco without requiring a driver to touch the wheel, the brake or the gas.

This isn’t a kit that makes your car into a fully self-driving vehicle, Hotz is quick to note, but it is a system that can provide powers equivalent to Tesla’s Autopilot, without requiring that you buy a whole new car. “It’s Mountain View to San Francisco without touching the wheel,” Hotz said. At launch, Comma One will support a small group of specific vehicles, but over time the startup hopes to add compatibility with more models.
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Just get everyone out of my way, that is what matters.
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If I could easily catch either a train or a bus to work, I'd do it. It's only 10 miles, but I've got no choice but to drive, which forces me to buy a second car we don't really need for anything else.

There's a disused railway station within walking distance of my house. Not much bloody use when the train doesn't stop there any more.
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John D'Oh
Sep 15 2016, 03:37 PM
There's a disused railway station within walking distance of my house. Not much bloody use when the train doesn't stop there any more.
As you folks in England learned a bit sooner than us, old railways make ideal cycle paths. Matter of fact, many of them in England allow for more daily transportation by bike than what the rail provided by train.
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Bike paths rock. Once I git used to them I pretty much quit road riding, since I was pretty suicidal fearless about it.

Have an 80 mile one just a mile from me. Also great for walking along the Little Miami River.
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Sep 15 2016, 02:20 PM

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“It’s Mountain View to San Francisco without touching the wheel,”

I regularly use autopilots. And they flak out regularly, to the point where you have to shut it off so it doesn't wreck the plane. The autopilots that are common in training airplanes are more than willing to wreck the plane.

But I'm sure Tesla’s Autopilot is nothing like that, they have probably thought of everything.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Copper
Sep 16 2016, 07:13 AM
But I'm sure Tesla’s Autopilot is nothing like that, they have probably thought of everything.

Or at least 99% of what it takes to keep you alive.
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