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  1. Re:Great, another one of these articles. on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    If you take away steering controls from the driver, eventually all drivers will suffer from an attention lapse. This is a well studied fact.

  2. Re:Maybe the GPS and map could work together on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ..and PRAY that the GPS is actually accurate for your city and all the roads are in the right place. I know my GPS has issues like that.

  3. Re: Please stop on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    No I know what it does. It has been well covered here. It has also well covered that Autopilot will KEEP GOING even if it thinks the human isn't paying attention. Plenty of people have suggested that it should pull over to the side of the road safely and stop if there is any sign of a disconnect between autopilot and the driver, but sadly, this has not been implemented. Why do people not heed the warnings? Unknown. At this point it has become apparent that it is not doing enough because people are still getting into accidents.

  4. Re: First? on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Furthermore. What should you do? Every other first world country has more then 10 times less the school shootings you do. You have all these examples and you can't figure out what to do. Incredible.

  5. Re: First? on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    First of all, they aren't paid to wear more than one hat. They are paid for the job they do now, like you are paid for the job you do. On top of that you are asking them to put their lives at risk to save another! That goes a little beyond the line of reason. I mean, what if someone came up to you in your cubicle, doing development or whatever you do and told you the office may get sprayed with bullets at any time, and they expect you to protect your manager and then put a handgun on your desk. You would be out of there FAST.

  6. Re:I am sure this is all Elon Musk's fault of cour on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the training that humans have to go though before they get to a point where they would use an aircraft autopilot, not unreasonable at all.

  7. Re:I think airpods work great, don't miss headphon on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had around 5 generations of Thinkpads now, and 2 generations of Macbooks. I've had to get around 15 dongles to support my use of the mac in my house. Exactly 0 for the Thnkpads that I can think of. It's no wonder Apple makes so much money, they are literally forcing me to buy extra products just for the 'privilage' of using one of their products.

  8. Re:Fords have killed tens of people today... on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's 7.2 billion miles IN THE WORLD. Not 7.2 billion miles in the US.

  9. Re:Fords have killed tens of people today... on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a factor that Tesla actually has control over. People keep talking like they do.

  10. Re: "center divider and lane markings" on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "Crash statistics" doesn't necessarily mean "an unbiased comparison of the safety of other $80K luxury vehicles in areas Autopilot could be activated versus Autopilot".

  11. Re:Driver is supposed to keep control... on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem with this is that it is hard to believe that Musk is so ignorant about people that he is totally oblivious to the fact that some get distracted.

  12. Re:Fords have killed tens of people today... on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right, it's a problem that we have to guess and it's a problem that the data isn't there. The problem is, no one posting here has the resources to go our and do in depth traffic accident analysis across all accidents in the US. This should be the job of the governing bodies that are allowing this tech on the road in the first place.

  13. Re: Please stop on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    first of all, they dont know who you might lend the car to. Secondly, they also train humans not to get into accidents in normal cars. Yet, shocker, they do. If humans were infallible, autopilot wouldnt be required in the first place. Tesla is almost asking that humans suddenly only error in ways that work with their tech. It just doesnt work that way.

  14. Re: First? on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, teachers are there to teach. Not be f'ing secret sevice agents.

  15. Re: I am sure this is all Elon Musk's fault of cou on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I didnt realize pilots used autopilot to fly low through mountain valleys, which would be compatable to a highway.

  16. Re: "center divider and lane markings" on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Doesnt Tesla record everything? if there was convincing evidence of that, Musk would be publicising it.

  17. Re:Fords have killed tens of people today... on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind, California is a relatively safe state to drive in. https://www.safewise.com/blog/...

  18. Re:Fords have killed tens of people today... on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If Tesla autopilot actually drove 3.22 trillion miles a year in the US in all conditions and all places like humans do, how many accidents would that extrapolate to? Anyone care to make a guess?

  19. Re:I am sure this is all Elon Musk's fault of cour on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Fortunately for pilots, there are no police cars or concrete dividers in the sky. Unfortunately for Tesla drivers, they are plentiful on the ground.

  20. Re:This is news on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What percentage of humans did these things versus percentage of autopilots?

  21. Delayed on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This happened over a week ago!

  22. Re:/. shit a brick when Apple removed the floppy on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Parallel ports had USB, VGA ports had HDMI... All were direct replacements. It's like you want to make a logical argument but yet don't want to read what I wrote already. The thing that makes Apple successful is that their prime demographic doesn't mind buying yet another thing to make up for the shortcoming. These are users that are already confused about computers, so they don't really know when they are being inconvenienced. By all means, keep being a sheep of a consumer and keep contributing to landfills with unnecessary little dongles as a 'fix' to this issues.

  23. Re:Reminds me of a time when on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Blade razors kept clogging for me, so I went to an electric razor. Then I noticed the trimmer on the electric razor did a better job than the razor itself, so I bought a trimmer. Now that is all I use.

  24. Re:But "no room" for a headphone jack. on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    So Apple screwed up on the floppy drive too. Meanwhile, people who used sensible devices like Thinkpads had a floppy option until flash drives *were* invented, or at least the laptop came with a CD/RW. Apple has a long history of abandoning users, that part is clear.

  25. Yet Firefox was always fine for general use during that time.