>>Isn't the plane's auto-pilot pretty much a pilot assistance system designed to keep the plane at the specified altitude and follow a straight line (heading bug on older systems, GPS coordinates in the flight plan on modern ones)?
Your plane autopilot analogy fails in a crucial manner:
First, to get a license to fly a plane, you have to undergo a much more rigorous training and much more stringent scrutiny than what an ordinary Joe/Jane undergoes to get a license to drive the Tesla car.
Another, a plane pilot does not ride (fly) his/her plane as much as our ordinary Joe/Jane drives his/her car.
Yet another, there are assistant pilots in plane
and the list goes on.
The foolish management at Tesla should have labeled their assistance system just what it is 'semi automatic assistance system' and they could have been slightly more prudent by clearly mentioning the "dangerous" components of it upfront, rather than cleaning the shit now.
It's a sad affair. I had/have more hopes from Tesla. But they should abandon their foolish autopilot thingy, to begin with now.
If you are referring to the parent's analogy, then yes, I said his/her analogy fails.
Tesla is not making it mandatory to their buyers go through a serious and rigorous training to use their so tauted auto-pilot, which is a freaking dangerous thing as it's far from being a autopilot and it's only half-baked semi-auto-pilot potentially riddled with a lot of hidden AI bugs, that their machine learning team may find hard to even locate.
The airplane autopilot analogy, the parent is making to justify Tesla's claims fails miserably, IMO, anyway.
But if a lawsuit gets filed, Tesla will have a very hard time justifying this type of claim.
Another important thing (from their business success point of view), is: this incidence and their shameless justification of the faults in their so-tauted autopilot will tarnish (already has tarnished to some extent) their image in the public. They can't just now show their fucking warnings they originally published in fine-print and got the unsuspecting users signed, and expect the users to happily purchase their now-perceived death-traps.
Competitors just have to point this death-trap autopilot feature of Tesla to turn a potential buyer in their favor.
Your plane autopilot analogy fails in a crucial manner: First, to get a license to fly a plane, you have to undergo a much more rigorous training and much more stringent scrutiny than what an ordinary Joe/Jane undergoes to get a license to drive the Tesla car.
Another, a plane pilot does not ride (fly) his/her plane as much as our ordinary Joe/Jane drives his/her car.
Yet another, there are assistant pilots in plane
and the list goes on.
The foolish management at Tesla should have labeled their assistance system just what it is 'semi automatic assistance system' and they could have been slightly more prudent by clearly mentioning the "dangerous" components of it upfront, rather than cleaning the shit now.
It's a sad affair. I had/have more hopes from Tesla. But they should abandon their foolish autopilot thingy, to begin with now.