Is Tesla’s Autopilot is a good idea in the Netherlands?

Posted on 26-10-2015 at 7:47 by sir_smokalot – 31 Comments”

This weekend it was announced that Tesla’s Autopilot feature also in the Netherlands is allowed, so we in one fell swoop, around 2,000 semi-autonomous cars there. How wise is this?

Give the men a exciting new gadget, and the little boy she comes to the top. Can you 100 times to say ‘please, it is a beta, and is intended only for certain situations on the highway, but for some drivers this is against deaf ears aimed. A few videos last week from the US published showed how a Model S on a two-lane road, almost into an oncoming car sent (video), and how other Model S at the separation of freeways, suddenly to the right, drew.

In both cases, it was used outside of the rules, and Tesla’s CEO Musk has repeatedly insisted that the software is not yet finished. I am personally a big proponent of people their own responsibility, but the question is whether it is convenient to the busy road network as a real-time testbed. Of course, you will learn under real circumstances, not really how a system works, and from the cost is Tesla’s action is also attractive, but still; a little restraint is sometimes not evil.

Verkeersveiligheidsorganisaties as the VVN are skeptical about the Autopilot-beta, they would prefer to see that a system only be available to the consumer when it comes to 100% tested. For the sake of clarity: this action had little to do with a Autopilot, but you can wait for people to make a link, of course.

We will close with an applicable sounds totally fake QOTSA: