Taking the wheel: drivers may soon supervise their cars

Diehard, financially determined, even among Tesla fans for a long time, a healthy dose of skepticism, the self -lasting software has followed the development of stopping.

However, Peter Thorne, President of the Tesla owners club of Australia, melted some of this suspicion when his members switched to a Tesla’s steering wheel with a full -drive mode in Sydney.

The group allowed the software to drive the car around big and small intersections, tight turns, intense intersections, long car roads, and Mr. Thorne says rarely touched the brake or stops the wheel to stop.

“One of the things we watched (drivers) was how long it took it to drop his hands from the steering wheel.”

“It was all nervous to start, but a man did it in less than five minutes, and a man did it in two minutes.”

The US car manufacturer tests its advanced driving software in several Australian states before the long -awaited launch.

However, the arrival of self -driving mode to local remedies caused controversy as they discussed the legality of the use of some experts.

Others question whether technology will ultimately have a positive or negative impact on road safety, and when drivers can safely trust the vehicle technology.

Tesla confirmed his plans to launch his self -driving software in the social network X in the country, and revealed that it was “coming to Australia and New Zealand soon.”

Australian drivers have been able to buy software upgrade from Tesla for more than a decade, and some early adopts brought their investments from one car to another.

The software, which is priced as $ 10.100, contains many auxiliary driving functions such as automatic strip changes, merging and stopping and Tesla promises, and the “minimal drive intervention of cars that use it will be available almost anywhere.

However, the video of the Tesla vehicles on the Australian roads without hands on the steering wheel, directed the software to question whether it was legal, including Victoria Transport officials.

Hussein DIA, a future professor of urban mobility at Swinburne University, is something “gray space” because Tesla show looks more autonomous than actually.

“When you look at the Melbourne video, the driver has no hands on the wheel, it can create the perception that the driverless cars are not allowed,” he says.

“Legally, Tesla’s system is classified as the second automation, which means that a driver should always be under control.”

Driving automation varies from driver assistance features such as the first level adaptable navigation control to the fifth level where a human driver is no longer necessary.

With the second level automation, a vehicle can control the steering, braking and acceleration on the road as long as it is controlled by a driver ready to intervene.

Prof DIA is like a “developed student driver” behind the steering wheel because he needs the supervision and instruction of a completely licensed human driver.

Automobile videos, which continue without human intervention, say that other drivers can leave a false impression about the complexity of technology and make them complain.

“When someone sees it, it shapes perceptions and behaviors, and so most of the accidents in the United States occurred,” he says.

“People began to lean on that seat and take their eyes off the road, and everything could be. You can’t expect a zone to wake up and take control very quickly.”

There are also questions in Australia, where Tesla, in which Tesla driving software in the US, in two fatal roads accidents and a class action case in Australia, was opened on concerns about “Phantom Brakeing”.

As technology comes from Tesla, whether it comes from another vehicle manufacturer, it is a natural evolution for self -driving software for highway transportation, says Charles Darwin University lawyer Dr Mark Brady and correctly implemented road safety.

“Ninety -four percent of all motor vehicle accidents are the result of a human error, and 1.3 million deaths per year are more notified in third world countries,” he says.

“If you can reduce this by 20 percent, a few hundred thousand lives to be saved.”

During this time, a difficult transition period for self -going cars and “a slight increase in safety accidents”, due to excessive dependence on technology and other drivers learn to predict autonomous driving behavior.

Ultimately, technology will become more common and the requirements given to drivers can develop from detailed driving tests to learning how to respond only to cars’ warnings.

“You will see more and more available, and it will be filtered to cheaper and cheaper models, just like the automatic transmission and driver’s assistance features, or he says.

“Almost every car will have a kind of button you can push.”