You're right. 1-2 accidents means nothing right now. So improve things but you don't stop them. The technology is ready to be tried and learned from on what the Autopilot does. Experience and miles has to come from somewhere, right?
And I wouldn't say 130 million miles does not have any significant value. That it a lot of mileage and it does have value. Needs more, but don't stop it.
And again, we lost one life. Okay, tragic, but without even searching I know it saved at least 2 others in Seattle with Uber Select. I posted a link. So I'm sure if I did research on the internet I could find many more cases where driver would not have had time to react but Tesla did.
So what does this prove? It proves the Tesla Autopilot is safer today having it, than not having it. With the programmers learning from their mistakes it's going to be even safer.
People don't tend to understand you don't get these real life learning experiences just on test tracks. They have to be used by the masses.
Another poster talked about Autopilot on aircraft. You think it was always perfectly save? No, but they learned and make adjustments.
Yes I understand that this is not fully automated autonomous automobile,
this is driver assist breaking, keeping the car within the lanes, maintaining a safe distance from the car in front of you when the cruise control is engaged,
yes I understand that,
But that is not the way many people are going to use this technology, they're going to use it so they can check Facebook, so they can take selfies, so they can check email, so they can concentrate more on phone conversations, putting on makeup and discipline their kids in the backseat, instead of concentrating on the road..
Its6 our responsibility to concentrate on the road, to concentrate on driving not look for a way so we don't have to.
And speaking of concentrate on the road, why is Uber making us look more and more unprofessional with these non-stop stacked trips is making us have to devote our eyes from the road and look over for a few seconds at our app and press a few buttons, this is stupid it needs to stop,
there is no reason why uber can't hold that call and give it to us after we actually end our trip,
but no uber has no intentions of doing that because that would make uber look bad, because that means the customer will be looking at app with massage saying a "car will be available soon" but no actual driver or license plate to show a uber is actually coming,
better to make us look unprofessional like a bunch of idiots playing around with our cell phone looking for the next Dollar.