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RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
Tesla is still bragging that full self-driving is coming soon (they're suggesting this year, which presumably means 2019).
If they have thoughts of that happening in that timeframe, then their crash-avoidance / prevention ought to be near bulletproof well in advance of that date (so that they have time to validate it). Obviously, it's not.
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Not my 'person driven vehicle' - ever. I've never hit anything. I'll put my driving skills and ability to handle any situation that arises against any computer anywhere. I don't believe a computer will ever be able to match a human's ability to handle the surprises that will inevitably pop up in the driving environment. Assuming a computer that advanced could be created, I believe it would pose a bigger danger than a few inattentive humans.
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An autonomous car shouldn't replace the driver; it should supplement it. Essentially using it as a high-end lane keeping program so you can focus on more things at once. Being able to look over your shoulder during a lane change without worrying if the guy in front of you has just slammed on his brakes? Stuff like that.'
After having driven a SUV with adaptive cruise control this winter I've vowed my next car will have that feature. Fantastic for safety and convenience.
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"GM Will Launch a Self-Driving Car Without a Steering Wheel in 2019"
2019? Morning or afternoon? Because my 3D-printed, fusion-powered, flying car is coming in the afternoon.
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No, Tesla called it "Autopilot" specifically to convince people that it could do more than it can actually do. Moreover, Tesla's Autopilot can't even do what should have been a basic feature of its object detection and collision avoidance. Nor, could Uber's system. In both cases, prior knowledge of an object moving into a collision intercept is neither implemented nor designed for. In both Tesla accidents, the sensors had to have detected the semi moving across the projected path of the car and basically threw away that vital information. Furthermore, as others have demonstrated, Tesla's software does not even perform rudimentary trafficability calculations that would clearly show that the car can't possibly fit under the "overhead structure" or couldn't possibly follow a path into a median divider, even if the lane markings allow it. These are the newbie errors that people in the industry have recognized for decades and why people spent the effort to implement Kalman filters and history files.
Additionally, Musk has been particularly pigheaded in refusing to even properly contemplating using a LIDAR, which would have definitively shown that the "overhead structure" isn't, and defective lane markings are not to be followed. Musk makes noises about using only what human eyes can sense, yet ignores the fact that the Telsa does use a radar, and almost all new cars use backup cameras and sonar.
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I should have stated that both drivers and Tesla have missed the point. Or at least their marketing people did. I mean, good job I guess as it probably sells the car better but it definitely is a misnomer. After seeing videos of Tesla cars fail to avoid debris and other obstacles in the road it's definitely clear it can't be an "autopilot".
Going back to my aviation example. An autopilot will do a fantastic job of holding a heading or following a GPS but will happily run me right into a thunderstorm. Similarly, an "autopilot" in a car should require the driver to keep driving and basically just make it easier/safer for the driver to do so. Trying to take the driver out entirely isn't technologically feasible or practical IMO.
I also agree about the radar. I like Musk and he's a smart guy but he's not a perfect engineer/designer. The boring company tunnel seems particularly badly designed/implemented.
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some forms of automation can be quite useful, like a automatic gearbox or automated lighting and windshield wipers. others not so, because it lets the driver direct his attention to other things then driving. even things like navigation can have that effect - i noticed that when driving pure on navigation instructions i sometimes have no idea how i got to where i am because i more or less just followed instructions. still navigation can of course be very useful, but it let's you drive with less attention then you should.
systems may improve over the years, but as long as traffic consists of both automated and human driven vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, road crossing dogs etc it will be very hard to make it perfect under all circumstances.
even trains that are more or less automated require a driver that needs to be constantly attentive and to more or less permanently demonstrate that he is fit and capable to control the vehicle.
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But assistance is not what the car manufacturers are shooting for as the end game. They are trying to achieve full autonomous operation with zero human intervention required.
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Sure, but given the many incidents, even across unrelated industries, we're not hiring the right engineers with the tribal knowledge necessary to even achieve what was already achieved in the 1990s; we've obviously got a bunch of image processing whizzes that don't get the first thing about tracking objects.
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The issue with being outdoors is the unlimited breadth of randomness and complexity. And such extremes are a common daily occurrence.
I suspect that if an unexpected obstacle such as an escaped-from-zoo rhinoceros were standing in the middle of the road, these idiot vehicles would crash right into it. Because "it wasn't in the database" or other such nonsense.
If it's not an escaped rhinoceros, it's heavy rain, or fog, or a cross-traffic truck, or a barrier that wasn't there yesterday, or construction, or children in yellow raincoats holding red and green umbrellas.
Humans can figure out the exceptions in a couple of seconds, while A.I. would be endlessly perplexed...
Basic navigation is, by comparison, essentially trivial. Accomplishing it safely is what's very hard.
It's easy to make comparisons with human drivers, including bad drivers and drunks, to make a valid point about averages. But the ruinous concentration of liability is something that few seem to be contemplating. Just that might need 10-15 years to sort out.
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You don't taxi on autopilot.
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Your picture above is intriguing. It suggests to me that someone would probably one day create some type of visual obstacles, just like the one you show, with intent of conducting some malfeasance, just because they think it's fun. Whether it causes a traffic jam, or maybe multiple deaths, might not matter much to them. It would be a little bit like stealing a stop sign.
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What I'm getting at is that the front end processing isn't even passing relevant data to an AI to process, it's just throwing stuff away as if moving objects aren't relevant, regardless of whether there's an intercept trajectory or not. I don't care if it classifies it as a rhino or a oddly-shaped bicycle, if it's on a collision course, the AI should be sounding alarms after the 75% confidence level is reached.
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I explicitly advised my son to use the logic of looking for empty space (e.g. an empty road).
Drivers that are using the inverse logic, i.e. 'watching for other cars' are the sort that fail to notice motorcycles, bicycles, and other exceptions.
They're also the sort that'll make bad decisions when intersections are surrounded by tall banks of snow. i.e. "I didn't see the other vehicle." because their lane was surrounded by huge mounds of snow, they didn't see any reason not to, so they incautiously pulled out.
Same thing for pile-ups in fog.
These are the worst at most 10% of drivers. Most aren't this thick.
Based on some of the accidents with various self-driving cars driving into obstacles that caused it confusion (trucks, barriers, people with bicycles), it seems clear that they're using something related to the suboptimal inverse logic that I've described above.
Otherwise they wouldn't drive into non-empty road.
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'In Vancouver they have this'.
Might be a useful approach to effectively block menacing autonomous vehicles from neighbourhoods.
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I'm all for driver assistance features, but self-driving features, I believe, will cause more dangers than they alleviate. Autonomous emergency braking - awesome! Lane departure warnings - great! Lane keeping assist - I'm leary. I probably won't ever get into a vehicle that is capable of steering itself, even if it's supposedly only to parallel park.
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I have no conceptual objection to forward collision mitigation; I'd love to see systems that force drivers to use their turn signals; I wouldn't object to automated stop sign and red light stopping systems provided that they take into account what's behind the vehicle (don't slam on the brakes if the vehicle behind isn't going to be able to stop), motorcyclists everywhere including myself would love to see automated systems that hold the car stopped if the driver attempts to start moving ahead (or turning left) into the path of an approaching vehicle.
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I think they've revised the definitions since the last time I saw it. Active steering was considered Level 3 automation last time I looked. Regardless, they can say what they want, but once the car is doing the driving, it needs to be able to do the driving. If you expect the average person to remain alert and ready to take over at any moment for a car that is performing all the normal driving tasks, then you're going to be disastrously disappointed far too often.
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A better plan for AI in cars would be in a monitoring role, and use it to start actively limiting drivers, i.e. if the car you are driving detects that you are not paying attention to the road and causing near misses, it should pull over and call the police, who will then take your license away (burn it in front of you) and have your car towed. Given that us oldsters with clean driving records will be the only ones left who can drive (everybody else having forfeited their rights by trying to facebook at the wheel), and all the millenials (who aren't buying cars anyway) will then need rides, we will be able to absolutely OWN the car-for-hire thing, and charge exorbitant fees for our services.
I have a newish sports car, with some lane departure warning and blind spot monitoring features. These are sort of meh, to me. The lane departure cameras get spoofed by the lane markers that were imperfectly removed by the road crews during construction. When I make a left turn through a gap in traffic, the side monitoring camera beeps because it sees the distant car I'm turning ahead of. Navigation system always wants to put me on highway routes, even directing U-turns, even when the through road I'm on is known (by me, by reading maps that were printed on paper) to be shorter, and usually less trafficy since everybody else's nav systems are directing them to the crowded highway.
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Tesla's fatal flaw is to let the marketing wank ("Autopilot") get in the way of engineering this system for safety (of both the Tesla drivers and everyone else on the road). There are simple ways they could monitor driver's attention to ensure that their BASIC safety features are not being abused. Compared to actually driving the car, that stuff is easy. Are the hands on the steering wheel? Are the eyes watching the road. Does this geofence indicate that this is a controlled access highway where the system is appropriate to use?
Instead they say things like:
- "Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars”
- “All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.”
- "THE PERSON IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT IS ONLY THERE FOR LEGAL REASONS. HE IS NOT DOING ANYTHING. THE CAR IS DRIVING ITSELF.”
- "Tesla drives itself (no human input at all) thru urban streets to highway to streets, then finds a parking spot”
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It's a Level 2 vehicle but they market it like it's a Level 4 or 5.
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Maybe I misunderstand what they meant by it can "...steer...in certain circumstances." I took that to mean something like the lane keeping assist, that bumps you over and warns you if you cross a lane line, not something that is actively steering the vehicle as a normal function.
By the new definition, I'll include Level 2 in with Automation Levels 3 and 4 as being far more dangerous than nothing in my opinion, except in a controlled environment (roadways with controlled access for vehicles and no access for pedestrians, cyclists, animals, etc.) I don't believe Level 5 can be successfully achieved without some type of Terminator/Skynet scenario taking place.
Please don't misunderstand any of that to say I'm arguing against all automation. I'm all for adaptive cruise control, lane departure warnings, cross traffic warnings, blind spot warnings, automatic emergency braking, etc. that assist the driver. I think those are very helpful.
I was not pleased to find out that Google, Uber, etc. were surreptitiously putting autonomous vehicles out on the road without so much as a sticker that warns other drivers that a computer is driving the car. Cars driven by student drivers are required to have warning stickers, why not an experimental computer driver?
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In all versions of J3016, the driver "Constantly supervises dynamic driving task executed by partial automation system," my emphasis added. So, under no circumstances is a driver supposed to be doing ANYTHING else. If Tesla made that clear to the buyers, then most of the accidents are at least partially "driving while distracted."
THAT doesn't absolve Tesla of delivering crappy obstacle avoidance processing, and makes me wonder if there is yet a circumstance where a Tesla will happily plow into a moving, or stopped, vehicle, with minimal or no warning.
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The nearest analogy I can think of is the old school driver training cars with duplicated controls including steering wheel on the instructor's side. And being a driving instructor with student at the controls on the open roads is a stressful job, I'm sure.
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BTW There are lots of eye-trackers out there that could easily detect how connected to the road a person behind the steering wheel is. Tesla could use that to bail-out on autonomous mode.
Nice eye-tracker example (YouTube)
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Re that Tesla video on the mountain road, all I could think was this thing is going so slow. I would be driving twice as fast and having fun at the controls. Hard to say how much at fault the autopilot was in the crash as the driver seems to have over corrected after the wheel ran off the right side. Obviously NOT a place to use autopilot. It's reactions seem quite sluggish.
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The Tesla system mostly uses camera imaging to follows painted lines on the road. I believe it is primarily using the white line on the right side.
In the first veer-off at the intersection the continuing line is not visible in the camera image but the visibility of the line on the side road is quite good. So, the car begins to turn because it decided the side road white line was the continuation of the line it was following.
As for the accident, it doesn't know what to do when the line visibility of all lines is severely restricted due to the crest in the road. It likely picked up on the line turning to the left, but lost track of it enough that it couldn't figure out how much meaning it basically turned a little left as it tried to find the line again.
Overall, the piss-poor performance demonstrated in that video is a clear indicator of how far away from full autonomy the Tesla system is despite Tesla touting it as almost ready for full deployment.
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The good news is that the present crop of vehicles, the ones that are supposedly 'full autonomy' ready, will probably have been recycled into toasters and refrigerators by then. So the liability should be minimal, so long as they don't promise that they'll solve this problem on any defined schedule.
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Unfortunately, we can't ask the dead drivers, "WTF were you thinking was going to happen?"
That said, Tesla, and others, are still a long ways from having even a decent collision avoidance system, much less a decent lane following. Some other aspects of Tesla's system is problematic, since it seems to not care about the actual road it's travelling on; specifically, in the case of the Mountain View crash, the lane following failed, but Tesla has full GPS mapping, and the nav system surely knew that the road didn't go in the direction the lane following algo was following. Seems a bit ad hoc from a systems engineering perspective.
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IRstuff - I don't understand the point of your post. Considering Tesla's love of beta testing on their customers, I expect whatever lane following system was in use during that video is within one update of their current best system to perform that task.
VE1BLL - I would expect that too. "Sorry, we had the hardware requirements wrong and your car will never do that." Of course, given the current state of things a Tesla may never do it anyways.
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It's completely different. If you want an analogy, it's like putting your 15 year old on the first day with his learner's permit behind the wheel, putting yourself in the passenger seat, and having him drive on a narrow, winding mountain road or an urban freeway at rush hour, figuring that if something happens that you can reach over and take the wheel. Just because I survived that with my dad, doesn't make it a good idea.
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Regarding eye tracking - Just allowing for the hands be off of the steering wheel for no fewer than 2 seconds would be a good start.
At the end of the day the biggest problem is deceptive advertising and marketing... IMO, the root of many of the problems facing society today. But I digress.
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The Tesla requires a hand on the steering wheel - doesn't seem to have helped. The guy in the incident a couple years ago had his hand on the wheel, but was watching video (a movie, if I remember correctly).
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If they were honest about what was expected of the human passenger in the driver's seat, while the computer is driving, it would not be a selling point, because no one would use it.
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The point about GPS is that the system should be aware of where it's going (i.e. map following as one input), and that there's no need to follow the other car that exited towards the right.
The raw GPS data is supposed to be combined with other inputs, such as previous curves and wheel speed sensors, to create a more-trustworthy fix than GPS alone. The usual Kalman filtering, etc.
For comprison: I've seen videos that indicate that some Bentley cars will downshift for an upcoming curve, based on a GPS-aided location (and a map of course) view of the path ahead. Also, some Mercedes will provide predictive illumination into (for example) the correct side for an upcoming roundabout, again using GPS combined with some dead reckoning.
Even my (fairly old) 2008 Mercedes correctly deduced my lane choice, going left or right at a split, in a tunnel under a harbour somewhere (i.e. no GPS signal). Apparently the GPS chip itself (probably uBlox) includes inputs for left and right wheel speed sensors, to detect not just motion, but the wheel speed differences implying direction choices. And the GPS chip itself provides the dead reckoning, built in. So I've read.
The Tesla appears to be blissfully unaware of where it is, and where it's going - at least in the immediate short term for planning the next curve. Presumably it has enough map-smart to know how to get where it's going. Supposedly it'll open your garage door for you as you arrive.
The best we can say is that they're not finished yet.
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In an accident in May of last year, the driver had her hands off of the wheel for minutes at a time before the Tesla drove 60 MPH straight into the back of a fire truck that was stopped at a red light: https://www.apnews.com/9f1d761cf98b402dacd59ca18c3...
The manual says that "the system should only have been used on highways with clear lane markings, strict medians, and exit and entrance ramps." This is something that could easily be enforced by the GPS system at a minimum.
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And the launch is going for today!
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
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Sell cars to the masses who don't know better.
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Because it's a driving assistant; not unlike the acoustic collision sensors and ABS cars have now, or even power steering and brakes, for that matter.
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As with any other feature/gadget/gimmick, it's there to get people to pay more to buy the car instead of a cheaper competitor's car. In this case, there may be the added 'Elon Musk ego' factor contributing, as well, which could be the more dominant factor in the equation.
In order for it to serve the first function, it has to be a feature that buyers want (or think they want), so it had to be marketed as a capable of driving itself without 'supervision', even though it wasn't actually capable of doing so.
You state very well the danger with vehicles utilizing SAE's automation levels 2 through 4. Nobody wants to be, and almost no one is capable of, babysitting an autonomous vehicle while it's driving, being ready at an instant's notice to keep the car from doing something stupid and lethal.
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Once the car is doing the driving (very loosely speaking) then doesn't the driver behind the wheel become the assistant?
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No, it's completely different. Autopilot does not assist the driver; it takes over the duties of the driver. Not sure about the collision sensors you mentioned, but ABS, PS and PB require action by the driver to engage.
One could argue that autonomous emergency braking is analogous to the active steering, but it doesn't take over any of the normal driving tasks from the person behind the wheel. It mitigates the effects of driver inattention, rather than being a contributing factor to it.
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
Obviously, Tesla's sales people and customers possibly say and think differently.
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RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
But flipping it over, where a fundamentally flawed and inherently limited automated driving system assumes human oversight, that's simply a dumb mistake at the basic conceptual level.
Self-driving cars will soon supplant Russian dash cams as a primary source of YouTube car crash fodder.
And if they ever do achieve the level of Strong A.I. necessary for safe self-driving cars, it'll have significant applications way beyond self-driving cars.
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
Customers? What part of that quote was from a customer? Of course the company line, at least officially, is that it's "designed to assist" and "features require active driver supervision". In reality, it doesn't "require" driver supervision; it apparently only requires a hand on the steering wheel to engage the system, then requires nothing for it to stay engaged until it runs under a truck or something.
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
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I think that was my point - the 'official' company line is what you quoted, but the customers were led to believe differently. Why? Because if Tesla marketed them fully disclosing the limitations of the system, and what the human behind the wheel was expected to do, nobody would buy the car, or at least wouldn't pay extra for a feature that, if used properly, makes driving more tedious than normal.
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
It self drove. Just directly into a truck trailer.
I don't think we will have cars that can drive themselves well for awhile. What does it say when the controls for the 737 Max can't be put together correctly and that is a much more controlled environment?
Honestly, I think that the real solution is having all the cars talk to each other to make driving decisions. That is a much easier problem to tackle than trying to make each individual car capable of understanding of what is going on around it.
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RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
I could do that with cruise control; what does that prove? It's basically a line following robot, not unlike the ones my kids played with at Legoland, so if the line goes into the ocean, it merrily complies. People have demonstrated equal stupidity; the first Apple Maps did, in fact, result in people driving into the ocean or onto railroad tracks.
I would think the survivors, or some hungry lawyers would have already jumped on the possibility that the drivers were misled by Tesla sales people for a wrongful death suit; the possible payout would be staggering and tempting.
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Lawsuit charges Tesla of misleading consumers about safety of its Autopilot feature
Tesla Sued By Family Of Silicon Valley Driver Killed In Model X Autopilot Crash
Tesla autopilot called ‘dangerously defective’ in lawsuit by driver
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
Since presumably you haven't, it proves you're smarter than Autopilot.
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
As for those lawsuits, none of them address possible false statements made by Tesla or its salespeople; so they are likely doomed to fail, since they are concentrating on the mechanical and functional aspects of Autopilot
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RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
I wasn't arguing that. Obviously, it's not capable of that, but it was marketed as though it was.
"...it's not much more than fancy cruise control with marginally useful lane-keeping."
I agree, except for the "marginally useful" part. I would say "dangerously deceptive".
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
Aside from what's in the article and sort of seeing the actual lawsuits, what they do or don't address is pure supposition.
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Tesla isn't going to back off Autopilot functionality unless a regulatory agency tells them to. The government seems to have bought into the concept of self-driving cars and seemingly has given several companies a free pass for their development, so I don't see that happening.
RE: Behold... the new Tesla Convertible!
In contrast, Tesla Autopilot seems to do exactly what I'd expect it to do with experienced drivers pushing the limits as the primary crash initiator. I think most potential customers look at them and decide that they aren't going to do that; so far the incidents are relatively rare, particularly with the self-selecting nature of Tesla customers.