![]() We were lucky there weren't any other cars in those lanes we crossed. ![]() ![]() It was speeding down the motorway when a beep was heard, the steering stiffened and all the driver could do was 'guide' it through three lanes to the hard shoulder where it simply switched off. The Tesla situation you described happened in a non-autonomous car (Seat Leon) I was in over 10 years ago. In its heyday, Motorola claimed that its embedded PowerPC chips were on around half of the ABS systems on cars worldwide. The use of 'computers' has probably saved far more lives than it has cost and computers (chips) have been decisive on cars for decades now. There has to be a balance, I guess I will take heat for these comments but that’s how I feel. Cars just keep getting more and more reliant on computers. Having too much computer “control” can be a bad thing. He was able to eventually stop with brakes but had car towed to be looked at. Ironically, just heard radio news about some Tesla driver doing 83mph on freeway and the car locked up or shut down because of computer glitch. Apple make pretty good consumer operating systems, but not nearly good enough that I'd trust them with my life driving down a high speed roadway. Definitely won't be an early adopter on this.
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