In the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, and New Zealand, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving mode is already available, which means that if you find yourself in traffic behind this 3-ton “truck,” the chances that the driver is fast asleep are not zero. I say this because drivers have been caught on camera driving their Teslas in autopilot mode while fast asleep.
Do you remember when Schwarzenegger wakes up in a moving taxi and the driver is a robot? That’s the movie Total Recall, Total Recall takes place in the future, where there are robot taxis that take you wherever you want while you take a little nap, and that future is science fiction, because right now there are no autonomous vehicles—at least not outside of the small pilot programs that exist in highly controlled environments.
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But if you look at Tesla’s website where they offer Full Self-Driving, it also says, in parentheses, (Supervised). This means that once you activate autonomous mode, you still have to be ready to take the wheel if the Tesla starts making any strange or dangerous maneuvers—and those situations happen all the time. So, no, it’s not really autonomous because you have to keep an eye on it, and if a tragedy happens because you got distracted for two seconds while the self-driving system failed, criminal liability is shared between you and Tesla—and believe me, Tesla will do everything in its power to pin the blame on you.
This occurred during a horrific accident in Florida, where the driver of a Tesla—who had the autopilot system accidentally activated—dropped his phone. As he bent down to pick it up, the autopilot system failed to recognize traffic signals at an intersection, and the Tesla crashed into a young couple and their pickup truck, which was parked on the side of the road.
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