There was an article in the Verge, discussing a recent study by the NHTSA finding Tesla’s poorly designed driver-assist features have been linked to hundreds of crashes and contributed to fatal accidents.
I’m not surprised. So much of Tesla is driven by the imagination of one man, and I keep seeing biases in their design choices that are more based on beliefs than evidence.
But one comment from that man caught my attention.
In an X (can’t call them tweets, right?), his response to a comment on autonomy is “Everything else is like variations on a horse carriage.”
via “Tesla’s in its flop era” – The Verge
I gotta say, if I had to choose between an autonomous car designed by Musk and a horse, designed by millions of years of evolution, I’d choose the horse.
This isn’t about being as smart as a puppy, but being as smart as a horse (#BASAAH?).
Image from DALL-E. Worked really hard to get it right and finally just chose to go with this one.
