Drives a Tesla and works for Uber?

I have to admit... if everything about this is on the level... that is pretty amazing real-world demonstration of the technology.

I wonder if you can program Autopilot so when this happens, it will slam on the horn, hit the high beams and remotely hack the other car to make it crash into a tree.

There's an aspect of this that I'm confused about:

In order for this to happen, he (the driver) had to have previously engaged the "Autopilot" so that it was operating at the time this occurred, correct? So if he would have been manually driving, it wouldn't have engaged the brakes (at least, not automatically)?

Assuming that is the case, I think this suggests that it would be very much a good idea to include an option to enable emergency / accident avoidance aspects of the autopilot even when you are manually driving.

I'm concerned about sensor faults etc. leading to weirdness if you couldn't turn that OFF if necessary, but barring that, as a driver I think I'd be happy to have this watching my back and covering for my human attention issues pretty close to ALL the time... Maybe it does actually work that way and I'm confused.

Anyway, I continue to be impressed with Tesla.

Related : http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/

What a fuck head.

What are they fucking blind that they can't see the car barreling toward them?

This kind of turd-for-brains shit happens to me all the time. Fortunately I'm a very defensive driver and always expecting doucheclogs to come out of nowhere, so I've been able to escape death so far, but it drives me insane how disgustingly ignorant some of these motherless fucks can be.

I'm just glad that auto-braking technology is becoming the de facto standard over the next few years, but it's not happening soon enough.

An insightful question...

https://youtu.be/SG9MNWXn9mU?t=21m38s

I feel exactly the same way as you, including the angry way you present it as though you've just been nearly killed by someone on a mobile phone.

These people clearly have a cartoon-like understanding of how a thousand lbs of metal and accelerant behave in a collision. As though you get out of the wreck with a few stars whizzing round your head and you shake your head and feel great again. Stuff like that can cost lives - and if you say that to the guilty party they'll laugh at you as though it's impossible, as though no one has ever negligently killed someone in a car crash. It can cause life-changing medical complications, take away people's livelihoods.

I'm also a defensive driver, and i've still been in many near misses. What i don't understand is why aren't all these reckless distracted drivers in more accidents? Do they have some sort of idiot's immunity?

I'd like to see how it handles a more extreme case, like the Polish guy who had a bus cut in front of him in a 100 zone (and avoided it).

What kind of douche drives a six-figure car and thinks it's a good idea to make a few bucks on the side stiffing hard-working taxi drivers out of their income?

I hope some drunk pukes all over his back seat.

Actually, he's probably in UberLux. He's charging 10x or more what a cab driver would be charging. He's stiffing hard-working black car service chauffeurs out of THEIR income.