id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt blog-dshr-org-2809 DSHR's Blog: Elon Musk: Threat or Menace? .html text/html 3182 405 82 Back in 2017 I expressed my skepticism about "Level 5" self-driving cars in Techno-hype part 1, stressing that the problem was that to get to Level 5, or as Musk calls it "Full Self-Driving", you need to pass through the levels where the software has to hand-off to the human. So it's very possible that Waymo's self-driving software is significantly safer than a human driver. The more serious problem for Waymo is that the company can't be sure that the idiosyncrasies of its self-driving software won't contribute to a more serious crash in the future. The NHTSA should force Tesla to disable "Full Self Driving" in all its vehicles until the technology has passed an approved test program Self-driving test vehicles from less irresponsible companies such as Waymo are distinguishable in this way, Teslas in which some cult member has turned on "Full Self Driving Beta" are not. ./cache/blog-dshr-org-2809.html ./txt/blog-dshr-org-2809.txt