Tesla is the dog wagging the hell out of its NHTSA tail
Reference article — Tesla To Give NHTSA Access To FSD Beta After Old Request Surfaces https://insideevs.com/news/604878/tesla-give-nhtsa-access-fsd-beta-after-old-request-surfaces/
NHTSA bought a Tesla with “Autopilot” and “Full Self Driving” over 8 MONTHS AGO and didn’t get Tesla’s permission to use it until Elon granted it today on Twitter. This despite NHTSA sending an email to Tesla IN JANUARY asking for the system to be turned on.
Over 8 months and having to ask for it to be turned on with a Safety score of 99
How inept, feckless, neutered, owned or unethical can you be?
ok we’ll turn it on
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 16, 2022
“With over 700 miles of driving this year and a Safety Score of 99 (including a score of 100 for the most recent 107 miles on Jan 21), we have not received the OTA update to fully enable FSD in our vehicle.
“We request some of your time and expertise to assess our situation and help us understand what additional steps we need to take.”
More on my POV here. Including how to do this right.
The same folks who now rail against Tesla thought they were a shining star and don’t know or care they are only the worst of the bunch
The Autonomous Vehicle Industry can be Saved by doing the Opposite of what is being done now to create this technology
The EU proposes a driverless driver’s test that is pretty good — Waymo, Cruise, Gatik etc would fail it
SAE Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazine editor calling me “prescient” regarding my position on Tesla and the overall driverless vehicle industry’s untenable development and testing approach — (Page 2) https://assets.techbriefs.com/EML/2021/digital_editions/ave/AVE-202109.pdf
Tesla “autopilot” development effort needs to be stopped and people held accountable
Tesla upgrading cameras and putting radar back? I thought the system was enough to get to L4? This is admitting incompetence and negligence, especially to NHTSA
· https://imispgh.medium.com/tesla-upgrading-cameras-and-putting-radar-back-96368435daee
NHTSA and Tesla back themselves into a mutual corner-With Tesla giving NHTSA a way to ding it without exposing the industry
Tesla, not the “safety driver”, should likely be charged in the first “Full Self Driving” manslaughter case
NHTSA should impose an immediate “Autopilot” moratorium and report initial investigation findings in 30 days
How the failed Iranian hostage rescue in 1980 can save the Autonomous Vehicle industry
My name is Michael DeKort — I am Navy veteran (ASW C4ISR) and a former system engineer, engineering, and program manager for Lockheed Martin. I worked in aircraft simulation, the software engineering manager for all of NORAD, a software project manager on an Aegis Weapon System baseline, and a C4ISR systems engineer for DoD/DHS and the US State Department (counterterrorism). And a Senior Advisory Technical Project Manager for FTI to the Army AI Task Force at CMU NREC (National Robotics Engineering Center)
Autonomous Industry Participation — Air and Ground
- Founder SAE On-Road Autonomous Driving Simulation Task Force
- Member SAE ORAD Verification and Validation Task Force
- Member UNECE WP.29 SG2 Virtual Testing
- Stakeholder USDOT VOICES (Virtual Open Innovation Collaborative Environment for Safety)
- Member SAE G-35, Modeling, Simulation, Training for Emerging AV Tech
- Member SAE G-34 / EUROCAE WG-114 Artificial Intelligence in Aviation
- Member Teleoperation Consortium
- Member CIVATAglobal — Civic Air Transport Association
- Stakeholder for UL4600 — Creating AV Safety Guidelines
- Member of the IEEE Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous Systems Policy Committee
SAE Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazine editor calling me “prescient” regarding my position on Tesla and the overall driverless vehicle industry’s untenable development and testing approach — (Page 2) https://assets.techbriefs.com/EML/2021/digital_editions/ave/AVE-202109.pdf
Presented the IEEE Barus Ethics Award for Post 9/11 DoD/DHS Whistleblowing Efforts
