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Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee
That's part of my point, though. Tesla rushed the product to a public beta while other companies are spending years to make sure it is fully developed, and now someone is dead. They trivialized the complexity.
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How did they rush? There was no preliminary date hyped, no crazy buildup. Even in '14 Musk was downplaying the capabilities just claiming intelligent cruise control and automatic lane change, two features already available by other auto manufacturers at that time.
If they thought it was unsafe they would have sat on it longer with no ill effects. The numbers are still positive for them with a better batting average than human piloted cars according to the press release claims.
Someone was always going to die in a self-driving car, and many more will in the future, whether it's a sensor failure, an oversight in the system, or an act of god with a tree falling on top of someone. Sitting still out of fear of an inevitability is a death sentence in itself, if mankind didn't take risks we'd still be in caves.