3 ms·
This is __very__ ambiguous: Mr. Pang states that: > the car suddenly veered right And later that he: > managed to step on the break, turn the car le
by madmax96 10y ago
This is __very__ ambiguous:
Mr. Pang states that:
> the car suddenly veered right
And later that he:
> managed to step on the break, turn the car left and
> stopped the car
So, that's __two__ steering motions (one to veer right and another to turn left and stop.)
Tesla only says:
> No steering torque was then detected until Autosteer
> was disabled with an abrupt steering action.
> Immediately following detection of the first impact,
> adaptive cruise control was also disabled, the
> vehicle began to slow, and you applied the brake
> pedal.
That's one steering motion -- no indication of direction or magnitude. Also, Tesla's language deliberately avoids ordering the events. Since the "steering action" appears first in the paragraph, it seems as though this happened before the impact. That information is not actually encoded in the article, but a reader would naturally assume this is the case (I know I did).
Short of a publicly released log file or an investigation by a third-party, I don't think we'll ever know the truth of what happened.