To be honest I don’t see the issue when we are staying within the scope of this news article.
The news is about a speed offset setting that the driver can set beyond the speed limit. How is that worse than the right foot of the driver in a normal car that can reach speeds close to 200 km/h.
While people drive faster all the time, there is no real option to prevent it that wouldn’t be a big risk to everyone if it malfunctions (the automatic cruise control from VW for example breaks to 70 on some occasions because there was a construction site when they first catalogued the speed limits. Suddenly breaking without reason increases accident risk massively). That’s why newer cars indicate that you are over the speed limit but allow you to override it.
Teslas feature on the other hand is designed from the beginning to break the law. There is no other use case for it.
To be honest I don’t see the issue when we are staying within the scope of this news article. The news is about a speed offset setting that the driver can set beyond the speed limit. How is that worse than the right foot of the driver in a normal car that can reach speeds close to 200 km/h.
Intent.
While people drive faster all the time, there is no real option to prevent it that wouldn’t be a big risk to everyone if it malfunctions (the automatic cruise control from VW for example breaks to 70 on some occasions because there was a construction site when they first catalogued the speed limits. Suddenly breaking without reason increases accident risk massively). That’s why newer cars indicate that you are over the speed limit but allow you to override it.
Teslas feature on the other hand is designed from the beginning to break the law. There is no other use case for it.
Half the point of self driving is to make things safer by removing the human from the equation of driving.
That’s like asking if I invented cancer tomorrow, would you be cool with that?