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Have you actually tried it? Because entire point I’m making is that it’s not like this in practice. You get used to it quickly and know when you need to monitor it and be ready and when you can relax.


But "knowing when you can relax" is the dangerous part. That's what makes humans unsuitable for monitoring something that goes right 99% of the time. Tesla's can swerve into an obstacle or oncoming traffic at any moment, it only happens maybe once per 100.000 driving hours, but at that moment the human behind the wheel is probably in the relax mode and completely incapable of taking over.

That's not just theory, the article describes there have been 3 serious accidents already with "self driving" Teslas that crashed while being monitored by the driver.


But how is it deferent from humans? They make mistakes too! All that matters is rate of mistakes.




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