What you're saying is akin to "Guns don't kill people, people kill people", and that's true.
And to extend that analogy, let's say Smith and Wesson made a gun that was marketed as having a safety, but in reality the safety didn't fully work and every now and then someone was killed because the gun unexpectedly went off.
I'm gonna guess we wouldn't have folks coming out defending Smith and Wesson and blaming the owner.
I'm gonna guess we wouldn't have folks coming out defending Smith and Wesson and blaming the owner.
Oh, but you absolutely would. You should not be pointing a loaded gun in the direction of a human being, safety or not, unless you intend to kill them.
The self-driving is oversold. People who have driven with Autosteer and Autopilot will know that you should not let go of the wheel if there is any irregularity in the road, the traffic, or even the weather.
I just can’t understand how gullible people are if they let the car steer unattended in an adversarial environment. It makes several really bad choices per hour! But then again, maybe programmers are generally more pessimistic about the reliability of software systems
”Oh, but you absolutely would. You should not be pointing a loaded gun in the direction of a human being, safety or not, unless you intend to kill them.”
To extend the metaphor ever more haha, this is such a great way to put it. This applies directly to my point. If Autopilot is the ‘safety’ on the gun, and someone still points the ‘loaded gun’ (the Tesla) at another human, that’s 100% on them. We can’t abdicate their responsibility because the ‘safety’ was broken. The operator should have never pointed the gun at a person in the first place.
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And to extend that analogy, let's say Smith and Wesson made a gun that was marketed as having a safety, but in reality the safety didn't fully work and every now and then someone was killed because the gun unexpectedly went off.
I'm gonna guess we wouldn't have folks coming out defending Smith and Wesson and blaming the owner.
Oh, but you absolutely would. You should not be pointing a loaded gun in the direction of a human being, safety or not, unless you intend to kill them.
The self-driving is oversold. People who have driven with Autosteer and Autopilot will know that you should not let go of the wheel if there is any irregularity in the road, the traffic, or even the weather.
I just can’t understand how gullible people are if they let the car steer unattended in an adversarial environment. It makes several really bad choices per hour! But then again, maybe programmers are generally more pessimistic about the reliability of software systems
To extend the metaphor ever more haha, this is such a great way to put it. This applies directly to my point. If Autopilot is the ‘safety’ on the gun, and someone still points the ‘loaded gun’ (the Tesla) at another human, that’s 100% on them. We can’t abdicate their responsibility because the ‘safety’ was broken. The operator should have never pointed the gun at a person in the first place.