The Problem With Tesla's Autopilot Is That We Trust It Too Much

A few years ago I was backing an SUV into a parking spot in a Boston garage, listening for the telltale beeps of the ultrasonic parking sensors to tell me I was getting too close. Even though the parking-assist system was active, the chirps never came, so I got out to see what was the matter. Good thing I did, because I was about six inches from slamming the top of the rear hatch into an overhead concrete beam about five feet off the ground. The wall at bumper-height was still at least 10 feet back, hence the silence from the sensor-drive system. I was right not to trust it, because it wasn't designed to look up.