i still can't believe tesla has gotten away with putting a feature called auto-pilot into a car which does no such thing. how does auto-pilot mean driver must be alert at all times with hands physically at the wheel? how is the marketing and naming of that feature legal and passing regulation?
and i don't like the overly positive implication that auto-pilot saved this person's life. no, in fact, its existence, as described in a separate incident in the exact same article, likely encouraged the drunk driving in the first place. a car just free running on the road with no one behind the wheel is not a good thing. seven miles is a long time to stop the car and endangered many other people's lives just as an active drunk driver would. auto-pilot did not improve the situation as the article implies.
and i don't like the overly positive implication that auto-pilot saved this person's life. no, in fact, its existence, as described in a separate incident in the exact same article, likely encouraged the drunk driving in the first place. a car just free running on the road with no one behind the wheel is not a good thing. seven miles is a long time to stop the car and endangered many other people's lives just as an active drunk driver would. auto-pilot did not improve the situation as the article implies.