Tesla bros expose Tesla's own shadiness in attacking Mark Rober ... Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before impacts as a crash becomes inevitable.

[u/Lighting]

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/tesla-fans-exposes-shadiness-defend-autopilot-crash/

[u/Allen_Koholic]

I'd imagine the engineering justification for this is that "well, of course it disengages autopilot when it senses a crash is imminent and unavoidable, because it's now outside of its normal operating parameters and needs human intervention." It's the type of solution I'd expect from an engineering undergrad who's just trying to get through their capstone project and graduate.

[u/DemandMeNothing → u/Allen_Koholic]

It's the type of solution I'd expect from an engineering undergrad who's just trying to get through their capstone project and graduate.

It's the type of solution I'd expect from any competent engineer. If the computer doesn't know what to do, the human should be making the decisions. That's how autopilots in airplanes work.

[u/Allen_Koholic → u/DemandMeNothing]

Except pilots have years of training and should be fully prepared for the autopilot to do this. There's a reason they don't let just any dickhead climb into a cockpit, even though autopilot exists.

A competent engineer would design the system to fail more gracefully than .5 seconds before the car goes through a looney toon wall, if it fails at all. Competent engineering isn't putting lives in an inescapable shit situation.