Volvo Engineer Calls Out Tesla For Dangerous 'Wannabe' Autopilot System (jalopnik.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday April 28, 2016 @03:45AM from the increasingly-growing-heat-between-the-two dept.

An anonymous reader shares an article on Jalopnik: Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot system has been impressing everyone from consumers to journalists, and even other industry experts and executives. But now a Volvo engineer has called Tesla's system out, claiming it's a dangerous "wannabe" autonomous technology. Trent Victor, senior technical leader of crash avoidance for Volvo, had quite a few choice words to say about Tesla's Autopilot system in a recent interview with The Verge, claiming the electric automaker was touting what is essentially a rudimentary semi-autonomous technology as being far more capable than it actually is. Victor fears that Autopilot "gives you the impression that it's doing more than it is." He went on to call Tesla's system an "unsupervised wannabe."

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Re:Crying on the way out? by lgw · 2016-04-28 05:12 · Score: 1, Troll

Finally, the trickle down economy will work.
It's working right now for Tesla's 13,000 or so full-time employees. Rich people buying bling is the most straightforward form of redistribution of wealth.

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