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This Could Kill Tesla
Floridi’s Conjecture.
Tesla is taking an absolute beating at the moment. Over here in the UK, they have halved their lease prices in a desperate bid to drum up more customers, but despite these insane prices, no one is buying them. I guess we Brits don’t want to be associated with these neo-Nazi-mobiles. But Tesla’s woes go far deeper than its nosediving sales figures. The only reason Tesla is still remotely valuable is because investors hope it will crack automation. These hopes have been significantly dented by Tesla’s terrible Robotaxi rollout, which so far has done nothing but prove their Full Self-Driving (FSD) system is utterly woeful. But this hollow narrative could soon be completely destroyed, thanks to a giant of the digital ethics world, Professor Luciano Floridi, who may have just proven that it can never work.
To understand this, we need to understand how FSD differs from other self-driving systems.
Almost all autonomous cars are set up in a similar manner to Waymo. The vehicles have a huge array of cameras, ultrasonic sensors, radar and lidar to sense the world around them. They also run multiple systems using those sensors. For example, an automated braking system, which can override the driving AI, will run using the lidar, radar or ultrasonic sensors. There may also be several AIs running, where one might use the cameras and…
