TESLA
Autopilot saves the life of a rabbit
and my car’s bumper should thank A Tesla customer posted a video in which his Model S, when circulating with Autopilot on, detected a rabbit in the middle of its lane during the night, locked and deflected to avoid running over it.(click on the image link above to see the video). Obviously the action of the driving aid system has satisfied the fans of the animals, as another rabbit has returned to the lair, safe and sound. But is Autopilot supposed to protect even the bugs like the rabbit? Even if this means exposing other drivers to excessive risk and possible accidents?
Autopilot, as it is available today, is a driving aid system. It is your duty to keep the car in the center of the carriage at a safe distance from the front car and, by the way, to protect the driver from an error when changing lanes or approaching a red or stop traffic light, situations where Tesla is far ahead of all competitors. It is not however assumed that Autopilot will drive the car without the contribution and vigilance of those who are behind the wheel, whether it is sleeping, making posts on social networks or running another movie for Pornhub.
Whenever a vehicle performs an unexpected maneuver, locking for no apparent reason or leaving the lane for no obvious reason, at least for those who follow in the back car from which the rabbit can hardly glimpse, increases the risk of accident. And the question is where do we draw the risk of what is acceptable to avoid running over. Necessarily clashes on pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles should be avoided, but as far as animals are concerned, we save horses and cows - even if they present a real risk to the life of those who go on board - but if we continue to fall in the ranking of dimension and weight, where is that we stop? In the rabbit, or do we follow to the gecko and the ant? If this is a question that needs to be answered, it leads to even more serious ones, to which the autonomous vehicles will be obliged to respond. In the case where two groups of pedestrians cross a street and it is impossible to stop before striking one of them, the autonomous system - as in the case of the flesh-and-blood driver - must choose to save the children's group or the seniors? Save the lawyers or the homeless? Politicians or ordinary citizens? Although some of the answers seem obvious to you, these are questions that autonomous driving software, when allowed by law - and everything indicates that it will happen sooner than you thought - will have to respond. And respect, despite the controversies that will necessarily provoque. Autonews
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