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Originally Posted by krayzie
Yea not saying the Autopilot was at fault obviously but a normal human driver would have significantly slowed down if anticipating or after that truck try to cut him off. It doesn't seem to me that the Tesla wanted to do that, hard for me to gauge with that video.
Or maybe it did but I wonder if the computer slowed down or the driver itself (probably the computer).
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I would have driven the same as the Tesla. I would have been watching that truck, half-assuming he would move onto me. I would also not have yielded, however, because I would want to be able to honk and make a huge deal if he tried cutting across two lanes, and running me off the road, lol.
It should be pointed out that Google recently updated their cars to make them drive a bit more aggressive/assertive while driving. It was found that they were being TOO cautious, and that alone was causing problems because they were proactively slowing down when other drivers weren't expecting them to.
There is no reason why you should slow down if someone is moving over from two lanes away into the lane next to you. You SHOULD be watching carefully to make sure they don't cross two lanes at once as this truck did, and if they start to come into your lane, then you honk or slow down if you want to be [overly] nice to them. I don't again mean to sound like a Tesla fanboy here, but that autopilot actually reacted quite brilliantly in this situation.