Going live again on my #Kick channel in a few minutes. Probably going to make this an ad-hoc, regular thing - with weekly, #engineering and #robotics educational streams intermixed in there.
Today, it will just be me working on some OnShape #CAD models with some classical music in the background. I do not plan to do much talking unless there are questions in the chat.
I am new to OnShape (having used PTC Creo for decades), so I am in a learning phase. 😅
#Autopilot and #FSDBeta-equipped vehicles are Level 2-capable vehicles - with the exact same limitations as many other vehicles on the market today.
Namely, the key limitation is that the human driver must remain the fallback for any dynamic driving task or vehicle failures at all times and under all conditions.
Effectively, that means that the human has the exact same control responsibilities between the two vehicles shown below.
Many also believe that automation enhances the engineered system part, the vehicle or the aircraft.
Not true.
#Automation, in fact, invisibly sits between the human operator and the vehicle controls.
Aircraft has fallen from the sky, operated by multiple, highly-seasoned pilots, right in front of the aircraft controls, for minutes due to the inherent danger of this invisible specter.
Only an acute respect for that fact can challenge that deadly, subconscious complacency.
#Tesla hand-waves this #HumanFactors fact as well on their official Autopilot product website, as shown below.
That “relaxation”, that “workload reduction” you might feel when using #Autopilot or #FSDBeta?
Guess what that really is?
Complacency.
Deadly complacency.
And it strikes when you least expect it, when the vehicle suddenly encounters a failure and it takes you an additional second or three to regain situational and operational awareness.
We already have an unmanaged automated system on the public roadways and Tesla/Musk further enhance the human driver complacency that already inherently exists.
If your #NHTSA investigators are still wondering, after years of twiddling their thumbs, why #Autopilot-active, #Tesla vehicles keep slamming into the back of roadside emergency vehicles… I just provided you with the answer.
Anyone remember the time when #Musk promised that, if you buy a #Tesla vehicle today, it will soon earn you $30,000/year in personal income by acting as a public "robotaxi" when not in use?
That was in 2019.
Same basic lie, different day.
The lie worked for Tesla when Tesla needed it most financially (and Musk was never challenged on it by US regulators), and so Musk is now trying it again.
Of course, the "Tesla Lie" actually killed people (by creating human driver complacency).