A week ago, I Turo’d a Model Y for a week. We were driving around, 35 mph on a two way road with a bike lane.
We were going past a bicyclist in their lane appropriately. I had auto pilot engaged. As we passed the cyclist, they moved over towards us slightly, but never left the bike lane.
The car suddenly went into a full stop, which was a pretty quick stop.
I can understand the car may have thought the cyclist was going to go in front of the car, but the scenario wasn’t one in which a human wouldn’t have slammed the brakes. My wife commented that we’re lucky there weren’t cars. Whine is because they might not have reacted as quickly.
To me, this shows the potential danger of these safety systems false positives. Not that I wouldn’t continue to use the systems because I believe overall these systems make me safer than without them.
But as always, the danger isn’t the car I’m in, it’s the one driven by another driver who’s not paying attention.
We were going past a bicyclist in their lane appropriately. I had auto pilot engaged. As we passed the cyclist, they moved over towards us slightly, but never left the bike lane.
The car suddenly went into a full stop, which was a pretty quick stop.
I can understand the car may have thought the cyclist was going to go in front of the car, but the scenario wasn’t one in which a human wouldn’t have slammed the brakes. My wife commented that we’re lucky there weren’t cars. Whine is because they might not have reacted as quickly.
To me, this shows the potential danger of these safety systems false positives. Not that I wouldn’t continue to use the systems because I believe overall these systems make me safer than without them.
But as always, the danger isn’t the car I’m in, it’s the one driven by another driver who’s not paying attention.