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One thing to remember in all the discussions about the accident is, that there is no information available whether the autopilot was active at the time of the a
by _ph_ 9y ago
One thing to remember in all the discussions about the accident is, that there is no information available whether the autopilot was active at the time of the accident.
- Cshelton 9y agoCame here to say this. It's unfair to start talking about autopilot mishaps in this case, and what this family is saying, etc. When there is NO evidence yet as to whether autopilot was engaged. Further more.. if the barrier was already hit previously by another car, as the reason why it was collapsed prior to the Tesla crash, this may simply be an area where the road is not designed very well and causes many human error in that location. This happens all the time. In fact, road design is a significant cause of vehicle crashes.
- phkahler 9y agoI will LMAO if it turns out the barrier was collapsed the previous day by another Tesla on auto pilot. We only hear about the fatalities right?
- modeless 9y agoTesla has just announced that autopilot was on during the crash. https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident It sounds like they are saying the driver had 5 seconds to notice the problem and react. It is scary to think that when you are on autopilot you may be 5 seconds away from death at any time. Better not take those eyes off the road!
- imtringued 9y agoIf you take the human factor away 5 seconds ahead of time warning is quite a lot. The car could have slowed down to a possibly non fatal speed. By asking the human to act the autopilot is actually throwing away at least 2 of those precious 5 seconds.