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Who's driving? Autonomous cars may be entering the most dangerous phase
When California police officers approached a Tesla stopped in the centre of a five-lane highway outside San Francisco last week, they found a man asleep at the wheel. The driver, who was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, told them his car was in “autopilot”, Tesla’s semi-autonomous driver assist system. In a separate incident this week, firefighters in Culver City reported that a Tesla rear-ended their parked fire truck as it attended an accident on the freeway. Again, the driver said the vehicle was in autopilot.
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The most dangerous phase is when a car can say to a driver who is doing something else, "oh, we're barrelling along a road at 100kmph (I forget what that is in cubits) and suddenly there's something wrong and you have to take over. This is not always going to be possible. People can't just take over in the milliseconds that might be needed to respond correctly. It's got to be all or nothing at that point.