• notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Do you want the autopilot to keep driving after a crash is detected? Turn off right before a crash is the only surefire way to make sure the fscking engine turns off before the crash which could cause control signals to get fubar and not disengage.

    • Patch@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      Autopilot could kill the engine and lock the brakes without turning itself off. By turning itself off and giving control to a human mere instants before a crash it’s effectively ensuring the engine isn’t turned off (as there’ll be no time to do it before the crash, and the human may not be in a fit state to do it afterwards).

      But more to the point, regardless of whether there’s a good reason for it to do that or not, it shouldn’t be used to claim on a “technicality” that autopilot wasn’t active “at the time of the crash”, as clearly it meaningfully was at all points leading up to it.

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      9 months ago

      It is giving control of the car to the driver without enough time for a human to react to anything. I understand why there’s nothing the autopilot can do but then blaming the driver for not fixing the situation in the 200ms they have is stupid.

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        9 months ago

        It’s a system that has full blame on the driver to beginwith so what exactly are you trying to say? Driver has blame the whole time. In the fraction of a second before impact, the automated system turns off as a safety precaution to reduce the impact as much as possible.

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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          9 months ago

          No, it turns off to disregard legal blame. Everything that the autopilot is turning itself off for right before a crash, is something that not only can be done with the autopilot on, but the autopilot can do faster, safer and better than a human. For as much as counts at that point.