Tesla Autopilot Cuts The Probability Of Having A Crash By 50%
The biggest argument in favour of autonomous cars has always been safety. It’s simple, really: remove the human, and bye-bye human error. And it seems the addition of Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot - neatly demonstrated below by our man Alex - is already doing wonders for keeping Tesla drivers and occupants safer.
Elektrek cites a talk CEO Elon Musk gave in Norway recently, in which he said:
“The probability of having an accident is 50 per cent lower if you have Autopilot on. Even with our first version. So we can see basically what’s the average number of kilometres to an accident – accident defined by airbag deployment. Even with this early version, it’s almost twice as good as a person.”
While the rise of autonomous vehicles does raise questions about where us car enthusiasts will eventually fit in, it’s hard to argue with those numbers. And when you consider those numbers and watch real-life examples of Autopilot saving drivers from potentially serious accidents, the case for giving the squishy bit behind the wheel less of a role becomes stronger still.
All this is with the first version of Autopilot. The second generation system - which will be fully autonomous - is expected to be with us within two years.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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50% is hardly enough, might as well make them more volatile and prone to accidents (please note sarcasm)
This isn’t autonomous! Autonomous driving means that, whoever is in control, he could drive the car without being dependent to anything else expect the car. If a computer drives the car he needs to get constant information with GPS or Internet or whatever. If anything doesn’t work it can’t drive anymore. If my sat nav doesn’t work I can still drive because I have freaking eyes. So what people claim to be autonomous driving isn’t. It’s remote-controlled driving. And as long as there even is any chance, be it just 0.00000001 %, of any bugs I won’t get into the car. Imagine the computer crashes because of the CPU overheating? It can happen to any normal PC. So it can happen to a computer in a car aswell.
This!! You sir, are a smart man
Did you conviently forget that humans text and drive, drink and drive, fall asleep at the wheel and drive distracted?
Doubt
This is a new world order. This is the beginning of irobot and the Illuminati showed us that movie years ago to have a laugh. The robots they make are training to take our jobs, and control us. And idiots are freaking cheering. Open your eyes and drive ur damn self!