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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Heck, a person willing to put in the time could take an Autopilot car and turn it into a suicide drone. That is what scares me about it the most.
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That's been possible for over a decade since electronic power steering and throttle by wire came out, there was a video of a guy who wired up his s2000 to steer via remote control that I can't find at the moment.
As for the autopilot programming, I can't think of a reason why it would 'see' the truck and keep going no possible logical explanation, the simple answer, already posited in Tesla's press release is that it didn't 'see' the truck. It's a known limitation in the hardware that comprises the system of sensors installed.
There's very little complex coding involved, the first autopilot feature was implemented on steam engines as a cruise control to manage the uneven power delivery created by steam engines of the time, autopilot on an airplane was created before ww2, you could probably rig up the smart cruise control that would have at least slammed on the brakes in the scenario which were talking about with entirely analog hardware if you can find the space to house it without a single line of code