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Our #ScienceGlossary for #mobility continues with the term #AutomatedDriving.
The technology is reshaping transportation by enabling vehicles to perform driving tasks and navigate increasingly complex environments: http://go.tum.de/749067📷TUM CCC/ K.Bogenberger, G.Wulfhorst
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Our #ScienceGlossary for #mobility continues with the term #AutomatedDriving.
The technology is reshaping transportation by enabling vehicles to perform driving tasks and navigate increasingly complex environments: http://go.tum.de/749067📷TUM CCC/ K.Bogenberger, G.Wulfhorst
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This is a really good 40-minute documentary by Daniel T. Allen for his The Limit series on #BusinessInsider on the current state of automated/autonomous driving.
#AutomatedDriving #AutonomousDriving #FullySelfDriving #Waymo #Tesla
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This is a really good 40-minute documentary by Daniel T. Allen for his The Limit series on #BusinessInsider on the current state of automated/autonomous driving.
#AutomatedDriving #AutonomousDriving #FullySelfDriving #Waymo #Tesla
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What do you mean you did not see it? It is a Bus and you just crashed into it!
Tesla has reported its Robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX has been involved in 14 incidents (crashes) since its launch in June 2025.
Looking at the #'s, the fleet likely reached around 800,000 miles by mid-January 2026 - that works out to one crash every 57,000 miles. The average American driver experiences a minor collision every 229,000 miles and a major collision every 699,000 miles. Er go, Robotaxi's are crashing at 4X for a regular human driver.
NOTE: All of Tesla's "incident" reports are fully redacted and flagged as “confidential business information.” Tesla remains the only ADS operator to systematically hide crash details from the public through NHTSA’s confidentiality provisions. https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/ #Tesla #RoboTaxi #FDS #AutonomousVehicles #Safety #NHTSA #CarCrashes #AutomatedDriving
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What do you mean you did not see it? It is a Bus and you just crashed into it!
Tesla has reported its Robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX has been involved in 14 incidents (crashes) since its launch in June 2025.
Looking at the #'s, the fleet likely reached around 800,000 miles by mid-January 2026 - that works out to one crash every 57,000 miles. The average American driver experiences a minor collision every 229,000 miles and a major collision every 699,000 miles. Er go, Robotaxi's are crashing at 4X for a regular human driver.
NOTE: All of Tesla's "incident" reports are fully redacted and flagged as “confidential business information.” Tesla remains the only ADS operator to systematically hide crash details from the public through NHTSA’s confidentiality provisions. https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/ #Tesla #RoboTaxi #FDS #AutonomousVehicles #Safety #NHTSA #CarCrashes #AutomatedDriving
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Driverless Trains on the Horizon as Japan Trials Automation Systems
Railway operators across Japan are moving forward with plans to introduce automated trains on both conventional lines and the Shinkansen. Following early adopters s…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #automateddriving #automatedtransport #automation #Depopulation #DriverlessTrains #japanesetrains #JREast #JRKyushu #news #Shinkansen #trains
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https://www.alojapan.com/1438697/driverless-trains-on-the-horizon-as-japan-trials-automation-systems/ Driverless Trains on the Horizon as Japan Trials Automation Systems #AutomatedDriving #AutomatedTransport #automation #Depopulation #DriverlessTrains #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseTrains #JREast #JRKyushu #news #Shinkansen #trains Railway operators across Japan are moving forward with plans to introduce automated trains on both conventional lines and the Shinkansen. Following early adopters such as JR East and JR Kyushu, private railway companie
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General Motors will integrate AI into its cars, plus new hands-free assist - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/ai-and-hands-free-driving-are-coming-to-gms-vehicles/#AI #LLMs #GM #Level3 #AutomatedDriving
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https://www.evshift.com/322489/we-drove-hands-free-on-the-autobahn-with-drive-pilot-because-its-mercedes-benz-episode-3/ We drove hands-free on the Autobahn with Drive Pilot | Because it’s Mercedes-Benz Episode 3 #autobahn #AutomatedDriving #benz #drive #DrivePilot #Drove #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #electricvehicle #Episode #EV #handsfree #mercedes #MercedesBenz #MercedesBenz #Pilot #Technology
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On Monday, the #BMWK hosts a panel discussion on🚗 autonomous driving and AI 🤖 with representatives from politics, the automotive industry & associations. The context is the project #nxtAIM, in which also scientists from JSC are involved. 📺 The discussion will be streamed live (no registration required): https://www.youtube.com/live/9wqTUQj3kKE
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On Monday, the #BMWK hosts a panel discussion on🚗 autonomous driving and AI 🤖 with representatives from politics, the automotive industry & associations. The context is the project #nxtAIM, in which also scientists from JSC are involved. 📺 The discussion will be streamed live (no registration required): https://www.youtube.com/live/9wqTUQj3kKE
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Complex issues will surface in the courtroom like #HumanFactors, mode confusion and #AutomatedDriving system internals that, frankly, judges and juries are going to be strained to understand and appreciate.
But the #NHTSA, in its infinite wisdom, is just tickled pink to have private litigation deal with #Tesla’s vast #Autopilot wrongdoings because the agency can continue to do nothing, which they do well.
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Complex issues will surface in the courtroom like #HumanFactors, mode confusion and #AutomatedDriving system internals that, frankly, judges and juries are going to be strained to understand and appreciate.
But the #NHTSA, in its infinite wisdom, is just tickled pink to have private litigation deal with #Tesla’s vast #Autopilot wrongdoings because the agency can continue to do nothing, which they do well.
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@eff 1/ This certainly could become a problem, but not at the current level of #automateddriving technology. I know the tech well, having worked as Chief Scientist for #AI at a major automotive company until I retired last year. Bottom line: it is far easier to collect vast amounts of data from vehicle sensors than to use it, store it or transmit it. The amount retained today in consumer vehicles, if any, is very small. Think #DashCam x 8 +/- (Continued)…
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@eff 1/ This certainly could become a problem, but not at the current level of #automateddriving technology. I know the tech well, having worked as Chief Scientist for #AI at a major automotive company until I retired last year. Bottom line: it is far easier to collect vast amounts of data from vehicle sensors than to use it, store it or transmit it. The amount retained today in consumer vehicles, if any, is very small. Think #DashCam x 8 +/- (Continued)…
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The legal expert cited, Professor William Widen, and Professor Phil Koopman have offered their thoughts on attributing liability (between the vehicle and the human driver), as linked to in the article.
That work is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4444854
It is a sensible proposal and Professor Koopman is one of the foremost experts in #SafetyCritical systems, #robotics and #AutomatedDriving systems.
Still, I submit that no proposal can quantifiably protect consumers with this type of system.
Why?
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The legal expert cited, Professor William Widen, and Professor Phil Koopman have offered their thoughts on attributing liability (between the vehicle and the human driver), as linked to in the article.
That work is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4444854
It is a sensible proposal and Professor Koopman is one of the foremost experts in #SafetyCritical systems, #robotics and #AutomatedDriving systems.
Still, I submit that no proposal can quantifiably protect consumers with this type of system.
Why?
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Browse through a range of technical research reports from each of our work packages👉https://www.safe-up.eu/deliverables
#RoadSafety #EUResearch #AVs #CCAM #ConnectedVehicles #AutomatedDriving #H2020 #VisionZero https://t.co/eHbqoKnLxx🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/SAFE_UP_/status/1674013812767223809
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Let's talk about some of the core issues with the #J3016 standard, though.
The first, most important problem is that it is not a safety standard.
It is just a basic taxonomy of capabilities for #AutomatedDriving systems (ADS).
But what good is a capability in a #SafetyCritical system if there cannot be a foundational safety case built around it?
There is none.
That leaves the door open for various laypeople to see safety, explicitly or implicitly, as a secondary concern.
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Let's talk about some of the core issues with the #J3016 standard, though.
The first, most important problem is that it is not a safety standard.
It is just a basic taxonomy of capabilities for #AutomatedDriving systems (ADS).
But what good is a capability in a #SafetyCritical system if there cannot be a foundational safety case built around it?
There is none.
That leaves the door open for various laypeople to see safety, explicitly or implicitly, as a secondary concern.
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#SafetyCritical systems, like commercial aircraft and #SelfDrivingCars, are designed to operate in a certain physical environment under certain conditions.
In industry, these sets of physical conditions go by various names, but in #AutomatedDriving systems, the term Operational Design Domain or ODD is commonly-used.
Certain weather conditions, times-of-day, traffic conditions, geographical conditions, times-of-year and so on.
The combination of all of these get put into the ODD.
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#SafetyCritical systems, like commercial aircraft and #SelfDrivingCars, are designed to operate in a certain physical environment under certain conditions.
In industry, these sets of physical conditions go by various names, but in #AutomatedDriving systems, the term Operational Design Domain or ODD is commonly-used.
Certain weather conditions, times-of-day, traffic conditions, geographical conditions, times-of-year and so on.
The combination of all of these get put into the ODD.
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Ok. No.
These two #AutomatedDriving systems (a #Tesla vehicle equipped with #FSDBeta and a #Waymo vehicle) are not at all comparable.
I debated internally to even post this video (because I did not want to encourage this type of "testing" in the future), but ultimately decided to due to serious #PublicSafety concerns.
Let me explain...
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Ok. No.
These two #AutomatedDriving systems (a #Tesla vehicle equipped with #FSDBeta and a #Waymo vehicle) are not at all comparable.
I debated internally to even post this video (because I did not want to encourage this type of "testing" in the future), but ultimately decided to due to serious #PublicSafety concerns.
Let me explain...
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One of the major misconceptions with #AutomatedDriving systems is that they are an "AI".
But they are not.
They are #SafetyCritical systems.
Such systems carry additional burdens that are foreign to more consumer/business-level #MachineLearning systems - in particular, the need to exhaustively quantify "the unseen" through objective analysis.
It is something that, most notably, #Tesla fails to recognize with respect to their #FSDBeta program, likely by design.
Let's explore two examples.
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One of the major misconceptions with #AutomatedDriving systems is that they are an "AI".
But they are not.
They are #SafetyCritical systems.
Such systems carry additional burdens that are foreign to more consumer/business-level #MachineLearning systems - in particular, the need to exhaustively quantify "the unseen" through objective analysis.
It is something that, most notably, #Tesla fails to recognize with respect to their #FSDBeta program, likely by design.
Let's explore two examples.
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The thinking in Kyle's Tweet would not be so notable *except* that this is a very common refrain in the #AutomatedDriving space - particularly in the context of #Tesla's #FSDBeta program.
#Musk nods at it often.
That is, something that I refer to as "Made It Assessments" - a complete assessment of the reliability of an automated vehicle is made only with personal experiences or videos simply because the vehicle appears not to cause harm over some route.
The vehicle "made it" (to the end).
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The thinking in Kyle's Tweet would not be so notable *except* that this is a very common refrain in the #AutomatedDriving space - particularly in the context of #Tesla's #FSDBeta program.
#Musk nods at it often.
That is, something that I refer to as "Made It Assessments" - a complete assessment of the reliability of an automated vehicle is made only with personal experiences or videos simply because the vehicle appears not to cause harm over some route.
The vehicle "made it" (to the end).
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I did not look at the signatory list exhaustively, but besides Grady Booch and @garymarcus ... I do not recall much in the way of critical analysis of the #AutomatedDriving industry and #Tesla (and the desperate need for any regulation at all there).
In the meantime, Andrej #Karpathy, an icon of this very #AI community (formerly attached to #Tesla, now back at #OpenAI) was praised for work that was beyond unethical and downright incompetent.
The AI community needs some serious introspection.
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I did not look at the signatory list exhaustively, but besides Grady Booch and @garymarcus ... I do not recall much in the way of critical analysis of the #AutomatedDriving industry and #Tesla (and the desperate need for any regulation at all there).
In the meantime, Andrej #Karpathy, an icon of this very #AI community (formerly attached to #Tesla, now back at #OpenAI) was praised for work that was beyond unethical and downright incompetent.
The AI community needs some serious introspection.
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@ct_bergstrom @proximacentauri @andy A very similar notion exists in the #AutomatedDriving and #SelfDrivingCars space, in my view.
And, there, is the outsized potential for immediate death and injury - directly and indirectly.
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@ct_bergstrom @proximacentauri @andy A very similar notion exists in the #AutomatedDriving and #SelfDrivingCars space, in my view.
And, there, is the outsized potential for immediate death and injury - directly and indirectly.
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#Tesla’s automated driving problems are a harbinger of over-reliance on what is fundamentally an insufficient and simplistic technical approach to Artificial Intelligence. 5/5
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#Tesla’s automated driving problems are a harbinger of over-reliance on what is fundamentally an insufficient and simplistic technical approach to Artificial Intelligence. 5/5
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However, my expert #AI view (and I’m not alone), good quality short and long range radars are necessary (but not sufficient) for a robust — safer — automated driving system. Coincidentally…2/5
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However, my expert #AI view (and I’m not alone), good quality short and long range radars are necessary (but not sufficient) for a robust — safer — automated driving system. Coincidentally…2/5
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#Safety is a word that is tossed around like a cheap suit these days - particularly in the context of #AutomatedDriving systems and, more typically, in white hot topics like #Tesla's #FSDBeta program.
But what is "safety" (or “#SystemsSafety”, terminology that I prefer to use)?
How is it defined?
This thread is probably overdue given the immense amount of incorrect and strawman arguments that I see out there on this topic - and that has real-world ramifications.
Let us explore very briefly.
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#Safety is a word that is tossed around like a cheap suit these days - particularly in the context of #AutomatedDriving systems and, more typically, in white hot topics like #Tesla's #FSDBeta program.
But what is "safety" (or “#SystemsSafety”, terminology that I prefer to use)?
How is it defined?
This thread is probably overdue given the immense amount of incorrect and strawman arguments that I see out there on this topic - and that has real-world ramifications.
Let us explore very briefly.
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No.
Given the description of the limitations of this vehicle in the article, the #GM Cadillac Celestiq is not capable of "driving itself" at any time.
It is a Level 2-capable vehicle and, as such, the human driver is the fallback *at all times* - the same is if no #AutomatedDriving system existed on the vehicle at all.
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No.
Given the description of the limitations of this vehicle in the article, the #GM Cadillac Celestiq is not capable of "driving itself" at any time.
It is a Level 2-capable vehicle and, as such, the human driver is the fallback *at all times* - the same is if no #AutomatedDriving system existed on the vehicle at all.
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The term "driver assist" (or similar) is also not defined in the #J3016 standard - which is not a safety standard, but it is the closest thing we currently have to a generally-accepted #AutomatedDriving terminology and taxonomy document.
Do not know what the J3016 standard is?
Have you seen J3016 or "the levels" referenced in various articles over the years?
Check out this wonderful User Guide by an expert in the field, Professor Phil Koopman: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/j3016/
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The term "driver assist" (or similar) is also not defined in the #J3016 standard - which is not a safety standard, but it is the closest thing we currently have to a generally-accepted #AutomatedDriving terminology and taxonomy document.
Do not know what the J3016 standard is?
Have you seen J3016 or "the levels" referenced in various articles over the years?
Check out this wonderful User Guide by an expert in the field, Professor Phil Koopman: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/j3016/
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I am not sure how I feel about this language highlighted here...
A conditional #AutomatedDriving system (likely described by "hands-free, eyes-off" which is not part of the official SAE #J3016 terminology by the way) seems entirely incompatible with the concept of "driver assist".
I really hope to see a detailed safety case here - and one should be demanded by regulators anyway, you know, hypothetically in the US.
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I am not sure how I feel about this language highlighted here...
A conditional #AutomatedDriving system (likely described by "hands-free, eyes-off" which is not part of the official SAE #J3016 terminology by the way) seems entirely incompatible with the concept of "driver assist".
I really hope to see a detailed safety case here - and one should be demanded by regulators anyway, you know, hypothetically in the US.
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This gets back to my "flight automation versus driving automation" (nodding to #Tesla #Autopilot particularly, but all competing systems also) thread that I posted last week.
*If* the automaker *is* endorsing a division of control between the human driver and the #AutomatedDriving system, then that division needs to be:
1. Explicitly managed (practicality concerns noted); and
2. Defined in a detailed safety case.This is not required of automakers today in the US.
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This gets back to my "flight automation versus driving automation" (nodding to #Tesla #Autopilot particularly, but all competing systems also) thread that I posted last week.
*If* the automaker *is* endorsing a division of control between the human driver and the #AutomatedDriving system, then that division needs to be:
1. Explicitly managed (practicality concerns noted); and
2. Defined in a detailed safety case.This is not required of automakers today in the US.
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Casually thrusting total legal liability upon human drivers while "pretending" that a differing systems-level vehicle control situation exists, is automakers wanting to have it both ways - and that should be and can be disallowed.
That is an easy call in my view.
Short of disallowing these opaque #AutomatedDriving systems to untrained, unsophisticated consumers until the #HumanFactors dynamics are appropriately understood, that is an easy call I should say.
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Casually thrusting total legal liability upon human drivers while "pretending" that a differing systems-level vehicle control situation exists, is automakers wanting to have it both ways - and that should be and can be disallowed.
That is an easy call in my view.
Short of disallowing these opaque #AutomatedDriving systems to untrained, unsophisticated consumers until the #HumanFactors dynamics are appropriately understood, that is an easy call I should say.
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Although the ship has likely sailed globally in offering these #AutomatedDriving systems to untrained consumers globally (due to regulatory flat-footedness of varying degrees), there really needs to be at least marginal regulatory scrutiny that requires automakers to detail the control relationship between the human driver and the engineered system (via a safety case).
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Although the ship has likely sailed globally in offering these #AutomatedDriving systems to untrained consumers globally (due to regulatory flat-footedness of varying degrees), there really needs to be at least marginal regulatory scrutiny that requires automakers to detail the control relationship between the human driver and the engineered system (via a safety case).
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That is in addition to a myriad of potentially compromising scenarios where the human driver is kinesiologically ill-prepared to immediately regain operational control of the vehicle.
The human driver in the #Ford advertisement unsafely utilizes this misunderstanding to operate the automated vehicle in a way that differs from when the #AutomatedDriving system was not active.
One can readily see the safety-deficient mental model issues as a result.
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That is in addition to a myriad of potentially compromising scenarios where the human driver is kinesiologically ill-prepared to immediately regain operational control of the vehicle.
The human driver in the #Ford advertisement unsafely utilizes this misunderstanding to operate the automated vehicle in a way that differs from when the #AutomatedDriving system was not active.
One can readily see the safety-deficient mental model issues as a result.
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This is one of the reasons that I look at "hands-free" partial automated driving systems very skeptically right off the bat.
By endorsing or introducing a significant physical difference in the way in which the human driver interacts with the vehicle once the #AutomatedDriving mode is activated, it further suggests that a vehicle control difference exists between itself and an unautomated vehicle (when it does not).
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This is one of the reasons that I look at "hands-free" partial automated driving systems very skeptically right off the bat.
By endorsing or introducing a significant physical difference in the way in which the human driver interacts with the vehicle once the #AutomatedDriving mode is activated, it further suggests that a vehicle control difference exists between itself and an unautomated vehicle (when it does not).
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The first thing to recognize is that, as a partial #AutomatedDriving system, the vehicle is not "driving itself" at any time.
Even while the automated system is active, the human driver is (effectively) providing the *exact same* amount of control input to the broader system as if the automated system did not exist at all.
It may not *appear* to be the case, but it is - per the very system definition.
System control is broader than what can be physically seen.
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So... #Ford had released an advertisement for their BlueCruise partial #AutomatedDriving system product on YouTube recently...
I have some significant systems safety issues with what is depicted here.
Let's look at the situation briefly.
