Tesla Will Drive With No One in the Driver's Seat - Consumer Reports
I know people are eager for self-driving cars, but this seems a little premature.
The features really shouldn't be called "autopilot." This stuff is actually "driver assist," not self-driving.
Tesla Autopilot Crash Highlights Limitations of Driver-Assist Systems (consumerreports.org)
I have a lane departure alert, collision avoidance, and adaptive cruise control on my 2017 Toyota RAV-4. The lane departure alter usually works, though it gets confused by poorly painted lines, and sometimes goes off for no reason. The collision avoidance didn't stop my wife from running into another car that had run a stop sign in front of her. I've seen no reason for using the adaptive cruise control.
True self-driving cars are a long way off, if they ever do become reality on public roads. I wish people marketing driver assistance stuff would be careful about how they describe it. Right now, if you ride in a car on a public road, somebody has to be driving the thing.
I know people are eager for self-driving cars, but this seems a little premature.
The features really shouldn't be called "autopilot." This stuff is actually "driver assist," not self-driving.
Tesla Autopilot Crash Highlights Limitations of Driver-Assist Systems (consumerreports.org)
I have a lane departure alert, collision avoidance, and adaptive cruise control on my 2017 Toyota RAV-4. The lane departure alter usually works, though it gets confused by poorly painted lines, and sometimes goes off for no reason. The collision avoidance didn't stop my wife from running into another car that had run a stop sign in front of her. I've seen no reason for using the adaptive cruise control.
True self-driving cars are a long way off, if they ever do become reality on public roads. I wish people marketing driver assistance stuff would be careful about how they describe it. Right now, if you ride in a car on a public road, somebody has to be driving the thing.
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