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Autonomous tesla car runs straight into a tree, kills the two passengers and it took 120,000 litres of water to extinguish the battery flames.

Not really, they were Americans.

Took me back to this ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimshaw_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

There was the urban legend of the guy in the US who bought a new Winnebago. While on his first trip he set the cruise control and then left the driver seat to put the kettle on.......and the rest is, well, urban legend.

As funny as that is, its hard to believe.

Even the most adventurous of technology adopters would ask the thing to move them from driveway to Street and round the block before doing anything else.

My assumption is that the technology failed or is glitchy because I am yet to experience any one piece of technology that works consistently and without any bugs.

My own car disengages cruise control of its own volition.  Im setting that with buttons on my steering wheel at least, and its a 2008 Ford.

Remember the one where the throttle or cruise got stuck on 100 in the territory?

Lets just see how hard to believe that is when the formal investigation is complete.

I've been in a Full Auto Drive Tesla 100D with my mate, in Auot drive or whatever they call it, that instead of slowing as it entered a road work zone accelerated to 70mph. My mate said he better report that as a software bug!

If anyone thinks that they can have a snooze in the drivers seat of a Tesla they are goners, let's hope they don't take out a bunch of innocent bystanders!

Bystanders. They’re one of the problems of programming the AI for auto-drive. Let’s say you’re driving a normal car and you’re driving at 70 kms approaching an intersection with a green light. A truck skids into the intersection and you’re too close to stop and you have a rather large risk of serious injury if you crash into the truck. But you can pretty much be certain of avoiding injury if you veer left. The only problem with that is there’s a bunch of primary school children there and killing or maiming many of them is a certainty. What are the car’s priorities? If you program it to avoid or minimise injury to passengers, the kids are dead meat. Should the car prioritise the safety of pedestrians? What about bike and motorbike riders? Should the number of 3rd parties affected be considered? What about a maniac who deliberately runs in front of a car in the hope it will swerve off the road over a cliff?

Not hard to see how the AI could go haywire.

Classic tram car problem;

That relates to a stir Mercedes caused a few years back, asked this very question at a Autoshow Mercedes stated their priority was protecting their Mercedes driver!

It's the message the pretentious AMG drivers wanted to hear, they don't give a feck who they run over as long as they are OK, babies, Mother Teresa, Jesus on a return visit, the first ever alien arrival, stiff sh1t I'm OK Jack! I bet they are anti-vaxxers as well!