Point blank, Tesla cars are not self-driving. They are not autonomous in any way, shape or form. Not by the SAE Scale of Autonomy’s …
Point blank, Tesla cars are not self-driving. They are not autonomous in any way, shape or form. Not by the SAE Scale of Autonomy’s standard. We’ll dive into that below. Although engineers and companies have come a long way with this type of technology, we’re nowhere near close to a true self-driving car. Frankly, the disappointment falls on Level 4 self-driving cars. I largely agree with former Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt’s view that « it’s a bug that cars were invented before computers. » In terms of sheer technical elegance, we never should have been at the controls in the first place. Imagine we hadn’t yet invented automobiles. Suppose I Iaid out a vision for using 3,300 pound machines to typically transport just our 175-pound selves in a process requiring we pay rapt attention to the use of a steering wheel and pedals to navigate roads composed of asphalt, brightly colored suggestions and poorly guided machines like ours which, even after years of refinement, killed 36,000 Americans each year.
