{"id":24839,"date":"2021-11-22T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2021-11-28T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T01:11:39","slug":"self-driving-beats-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/self-driving-beats-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Still Look Forward to Self-Driving Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I told you about how disappointed Steve and I have been with the Full Self-Driving beta<\/a> we’ve been testing from Tesla. I wanted to give you a different perspective on the situation.<\/p>\n

I went to visit some friends, and on the way back, I decided to let the car drive me home. The drive wasn’t super complicated, but it had a right turn on a red light and a few other interesting maneuvers.<\/p>\n

I would still describe the ride as being with a student driver, but it wasn’t terrifying at all. It was a bit too tentative, so the time it took to make a right turn on a red light was long enough to impel the Verizon FiOS driver behind me to give a gentle honk.<\/p>\n

The drive included a T-intersection with a stop, and two lanes going in my direction. The intersection is right in front of a little shopping plaza with lots of foot traffic.<\/p>\n

My self-driving Tesla came up to the intersection, waited for the first car on my left to make its turn. It then stayed stopped because a pedestrian started to walk into the crosswalk in front of me.<\/p>\n

But then a human driver came up on my right and BLEW through the stop sign. Luckily the pedestrian was paying attention and did not get splattered across the road.<\/p>\n

This is why, in spite of the problems I’ve been experiencing with the Tesla program, I still believe humans should not be driving at all and I’m glad to be part of beta testing Full Self-Driving. It will get better, and it will learn, unlike humans who evidently never will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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