Car Manufacturer News
Tesla Could Share Autopilot Data with the Fed
In this day and age of the NSA and big brother watching you, I had to think long and hard whether this was a can of worms to open or not. Ultimately, I like stirring the pot, so get you tinfoil hats on folks cause this one’s gonna be a fun. Tesla is talking about possibly sharing its 780 million miles of Autopilot test data with the biggest automotive nanny of the all, the Department of Transportation.
According to the report from Electrek, the EV giant is looking to give the DoT the data it needs to create new laws that’ll allow driverless cars on the roads. As it stands today, too little is known about how these systems communicate and how they can actually be safer than a human driver. Nearly 1 billion miles of autonomous data should be enough to help jumpstart the law changes, right?
Well, that all sounds well and good, but Tesla’s Autopilot system is not a fully autonomous one. In fact, it is more or less just an advanced version of the adaptive cruise and lane-keep assist that we’ve had for some time. Yes, it is a good bit more advanced than we’ve had before, but it still requires human attention and intervention, though one man proved you can grab some Zs while the Autopilot does the heavy lifting.
Will this help? Sure, but I am not too confident it’ll spark any changes to the laws anytime soon.
Keep it locked here for updates.
You must be logged in to post a comment Login