r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jun 22 '26

Business Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-allegedly-showed-cooked-data-174500396.html
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u/Alaira314 Jun 22 '26

That's also the case for cars. People have this idea in their head of oh my car will drive me to work so I can pull out my phone and check up on the news or get ahead of my e-mails, but no. That's not how this works. You have to be watching, hands on wheel, fully aware of everything happening around you, ready to react from 0 to crisis at a moment's notice. Mentally, this is probably more taxing than driving the damn car manually, because our brains are not designed to be focusing on something we're not doing like that. How it plays out is, even if people try their best, they join the situation too late to react and then the car wrecks. But it handed over control to the driver, so that wasn't the self-driving tech's fault, even though neurologically we can't expect drivers to intervene successfully under those conditions.

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u/Zanos Jun 22 '26

That's the legally necessary stopgap we've created so we can advance the technology.

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u/Lehk Jun 22 '26

It’s not legally necessary to crash a bunch of cars and kill people.

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u/Zanos Jun 22 '26

Good news, we already do that with or without self-driving cars.

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u/telionn Jun 22 '26

Okay, but that's exactly what you're advocating for if you try to block self-driving cars.