As long as you don't have a problem with disabling the cruise control, air conditioning, stereo, power windows, etc on your car... since they aren't really doing anything for anyone anyway.
"not doing anything" is completely different from "not autonomously driving the vehicle"
Maybe "real" autopilot software needs more context information to be accurate. Humans have a very complex capacity to "guess" extra situations that could be dangerous and this help us to avoid several accidents, and to expect that a car computer will do exactly the same is not a realistic situation.
Luckily, "real" autopilot systems ALWAYS have an alert human in control of the vehicle ready to take over at any time. And nobody who knows what autopilot means, and nobody at Tesla, and nobody who has bought a vehicle from Tesla and listened to their delivery spiel, expect the car to do the same as a human can.
You do know where those statistics come from right? Police investigate collisions, and if the car was doing even 1 km/hr over the posted limit, they check off "speeding" as one of the causes of the collision. As a result of the fact that the vast majority of cars are travelling over the posted speed limit at all times on public roads, the vast majority of collisions "have speed as a factor". This doesn't actually mean that reducing speed limits, or stricter enforcement of them, will make it any safer, but it's great for PR, which gives a social license to the police to operate more speed traps and for cities to lower speed limits further, all in an effort to bring in more income from fines.
Of course actual studies that look in to the effect of lowering speed limits, or increased enforcement, have never found a conclusive link to increased safety (for every study that shows there is, another study shows there isn't) But the fine revenue is just too lucrative...
And yet there are an astounding number of people claiming that the driver of the car doesn't need to take any responsibility for his actions here and should blame it all on Tesla.
Better to change the name from auto-pilot to cruise control and be done with it.
Why? is there some part of a normal "autopilot" that this one doesn't do?
No autopilot on the planet, in planes, boats, or cars, is designed to be used without a human controlling the vehicle. Why should Tesla's be held to a completely different standard?
Good thing they don't sell a self driving vehicle then, only one with an advanced form of cruise control.
Tesla has stated many times that the current hardware is not sufficient for self driving, and that when they do finally make an autonomous vehicle it will require more and different hardware.
No, the autopilot feature has never been marketed that way at all by Tesla, not even once.
The feature is marketed as taking away the strain of constant minor adjustments so you can focus on the more general tasks such as watching for trucks turning across your lane.
If a moron ignores everything in the marketing, the demo provided by Tesla at delivery, the warning when enabling the feature, the user manual, the warning that pops up every single time you activate the feature while driving, and the constant reminders every few minutes to put your hands on the wheel... Well I don't have any sympathy for him at all.
Another Model S owner here... It does a positively atrociously horrible job of reading speed limit signs, it knows the speed limit of the road I'm on maybe 10% of the time. I have not installed the 7.1 software update because I won't risk having my cruise control limited to significantly below the speed limit on many roads.
That said, it does an amazingly good job of providing an autopilot feature, which I enjoy on pretty much every single drive.
Exactly like the Tesla, it sounds a series of alarms of increasing urgency if there has been no driver interaction after a set amount of time.
Autopilot is the best name for the system, and the vast majority of people understand exactly what that means.
A couple of complete morons don't, and they either get themselves killed, or post comments about how Tesla shouldn't call it autopilot, but those same people probably would have objected when the car was originally called the automobile, and would have sued the inventor of the wheel for making something too dangerous.
EVERY device sold is carrier locked, luckily the unlocking market is pretty big, so you might be able to do this, but I can guarantee you that the providers will not make it easy for you. Especially if you want to be able to use a phone number as well which doesn't change with each SIM swap.
As soon as they tied next month's usage directly to this months usage, they gave up the ability to call this month's usage unlimited.
And your car rental annalogy is exactly the same, if they can't make money on "unlimited" and don't want to sell it, then they should fix their fraudulent and deceptive marketing, not ban individuals who comply 100% with the rules as they were laid out to them.
Unlimited by definition means that there are no limits, not being able to renew if you do a certain thing is by it's very definition a limit.
But you are entitled to what they claim to be offering. If they call it unlimited, it should be unlimited. If they tell those customers that unlimited plans don't exist anymore and they have to choose something else, I'd have no problem with it, but quit pretending that these people are still on an unlimited plan if it isn't really unlimited.
Be glad it's even an option. Where I live the absolute largest data plan you can even buy is 40GB and that costs $150/mo. To get to 100GB you'd have 60GB of "overage", the first 1.5GB of which will be billed at $5/100MB and after that at $0.05/MB for a total of $75 for the first 1.5GB and $2925 for the remainder.
Grand total for 100GB here would be $3150.00 (plus tax, plus mandatory voice package, plus various fees)
Except that Tesla's Auto-pilot fits the dictionary definition of the system 100% and has every bit as much ability as Auto-pilot on aircraft and boats (the only other vehicles with auto-pilot) Whereas Verizon's definition of Unlimited is exactly the opposite of the dictionary definition, and not at all how it works on other provider's networks in other parts of the world... Other than that they're exactly the same...
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As long as you don't have a problem with disabling the cruise control, air conditioning, stereo, power windows, etc on your car... since they aren't really doing anything for anyone anyway.
"not doing anything" is completely different from "not autonomously driving the vehicle"
Maybe "real" autopilot software needs more context information to be accurate. Humans have a very complex capacity to "guess" extra situations that could be dangerous and this help us to avoid several accidents, and to expect that a car computer will do exactly the same is not a realistic situation.
Luckily, "real" autopilot systems ALWAYS have an alert human in control of the vehicle ready to take over at any time. And nobody who knows what autopilot means, and nobody at Tesla, and nobody who has bought a vehicle from Tesla and listened to their delivery spiel, expect the car to do the same as a human can.
That speeding is unsafe.
You do know where those statistics come from right? Police investigate collisions, and if the car was doing even 1 km/hr over the posted limit, they check off "speeding" as one of the causes of the collision. As a result of the fact that the vast majority of cars are travelling over the posted speed limit at all times on public roads, the vast majority of collisions "have speed as a factor". This doesn't actually mean that reducing speed limits, or stricter enforcement of them, will make it any safer, but it's great for PR, which gives a social license to the police to operate more speed traps and for cities to lower speed limits further, all in an effort to bring in more income from fines.
Of course actual studies that look in to the effect of lowering speed limits, or increased enforcement, have never found a conclusive link to increased safety (for every study that shows there is, another study shows there isn't) But the fine revenue is just too lucrative...
And yet there are an astounding number of people claiming that the driver of the car doesn't need to take any responsibility for his actions here and should blame it all on Tesla.
Better to change the name from auto-pilot to cruise control and be done with it.
Why? is there some part of a normal "autopilot" that this one doesn't do?
No autopilot on the planet, in planes, boats, or cars, is designed to be used without a human controlling the vehicle. Why should Tesla's be held to a completely different standard?
Good thing they don't sell a self driving vehicle then, only one with an advanced form of cruise control.
Tesla has stated many times that the current hardware is not sufficient for self driving, and that when they do finally make an autonomous vehicle it will require more and different hardware.
If they were "trying to kill us" we'd be hearing about hundreds of these deaths, not one.
The car does not set it's own speed. He set the speed himself.
Except that Tesla doesn't sell a car capable of driving itself, so it's the occupant's job not to kill themselves.
Luckily for you then, this one's easy. The car wasn't driving as it's not an autonomous car, so it's the driver's fault. Done!
Because people love to hate Tesla?
Except there was no autonomous car involved in this collision at all... And the human didn't avoid the situation.
No, the autopilot feature has never been marketed that way at all by Tesla, not even once.
The feature is marketed as taking away the strain of constant minor adjustments so you can focus on the more general tasks such as watching for trucks turning across your lane.
If a moron ignores everything in the marketing, the demo provided by Tesla at delivery, the warning when enabling the feature, the user manual, the warning that pops up every single time you activate the feature while driving, and the constant reminders every few minutes to put your hands on the wheel... Well I don't have any sympathy for him at all.
Of course the bigger question is, why would you talk about self driving cars when no self driving car was involved in any way with this story?
Another Model S owner here...
It does a positively atrociously horrible job of reading speed limit signs, it knows the speed limit of the road I'm on maybe 10% of the time. I have not installed the 7.1 software update because I won't risk having my cruise control limited to significantly below the speed limit on many roads.
That said, it does an amazingly good job of providing an autopilot feature, which I enjoy on pretty much every single drive.
Exactly like the Tesla, it sounds a series of alarms of increasing urgency if there has been no driver interaction after a set amount of time.
Autopilot is the best name for the system, and the vast majority of people understand exactly what that means.
A couple of complete morons don't, and they either get themselves killed, or post comments about how Tesla shouldn't call it autopilot, but those same people probably would have objected when the car was originally called the automobile, and would have sued the inventor of the wheel for making something too dangerous.
EVERY device sold is carrier locked, luckily the unlocking market is pretty big, so you might be able to do this, but I can guarantee you that the providers will not make it easy for you. Especially if you want to be able to use a phone number as well which doesn't change with each SIM swap.
As soon as they tied next month's usage directly to this months usage, they gave up the ability to call this month's usage unlimited.
And your car rental annalogy is exactly the same, if they can't make money on "unlimited" and don't want to sell it, then they should fix their fraudulent and deceptive marketing, not ban individuals who comply 100% with the rules as they were laid out to them.
Unlimited by definition means that there are no limits, not being able to renew if you do a certain thing is by it's very definition a limit.
I don't think you understand the definition of unlimited either....
The failure is that they STILL claim this plan is unlimited, even if it is not.
If you don't want to offer unlimited, fine, don't offer it. But don't call something unlimited unless it actually is.
But you are entitled to what they claim to be offering. If they call it unlimited, it should be unlimited.
If they tell those customers that unlimited plans don't exist anymore and they have to choose something else, I'd have no problem with it, but quit pretending that these people are still on an unlimited plan if it isn't really unlimited.
Then quit pretending to have an unlimited plan, and market what you're willing to provide.
I have no problem with the idea that they don't offer unlimited, I DO have a problem with them claiming to offer unlimited while not doing so.
Be glad it's even an option. Where I live the absolute largest data plan you can even buy is 40GB and that costs $150/mo. To get to 100GB you'd have 60GB of "overage", the first 1.5GB of which will be billed at $5/100MB and after that at $0.05/MB for a total of $75 for the first 1.5GB and $2925 for the remainder.
Grand total for 100GB here would be $3150.00 (plus tax, plus mandatory voice package, plus various fees)
Except that Tesla's Auto-pilot fits the dictionary definition of the system 100% and has every bit as much ability as Auto-pilot on aircraft and boats (the only other vehicles with auto-pilot) Whereas Verizon's definition of Unlimited is exactly the opposite of the dictionary definition, and not at all how it works on other provider's networks in other parts of the world... Other than that they're exactly the same...
iWatch sales are slowing, other smart watch sales are growing. So this means that people realized the Apple product sucks as badly as most Apple products. But that people like the other smart watches as their volumes are still growing. So instead of yet another "smartwatch market is doomed" article, it should be "apple watch sucks, smart watch sales from other manufacturers continue to grow" unfortunately as so many stupid reporters try to link the 2 together, the horrible apple watch experience is being used as an argument to try to convince people who want one not to try any of the other amazing products out there.