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1. The driver acknowledged that he should have turned off autopilot, but the focus of the complaint is that the car did not decelerate after hitting the first p
by nv-vn 10y ago
1. The driver acknowledged that he should have turned off autopilot, but the focus of the complaint is that the car did not decelerate after hitting the first post.
2. The driver claims that the warning sound never came on. If the indicator was buggy, logs would not necessarily show that if the car thought it had played the sound but the speaker malfunctioned.
3. The logs haven't been released AFAICT and since Tesla motors isn't under any oath not to lie, there's no proof that they're telling the ttuth here either.
- zaroth 10y ago#1 is an interesting case. There are two systems, auto-steer, and adaptive cruise control. Adaptive cruise control is not generally built to hard brake after detecting an accident. Tesla will keep on cruising after an accident as long as the system is not deactivated (driver touches the brake). I'm guessing this functionality is because the risk of hard braking at the wrong time outweighs the risk of hard braking at the right time, and so it's better to tell drivers the car will not hard brake, and it's up to them. There must be some trade-off, because certainly the car is capable of hard-braking itself, it's just a matter of ensuring the software only does it at just the right times.