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NHTSA investigating Texas Tesla crash

• mimixco 6y ago
  Interesting takeaway here... the victims were 59 and 69 years old! So probably not kids making a YouTube video. As someone who lives in this area, I'm terrified of people using "autopilot" here and I try to stay away from Tesla's lest anyone try it. It's a very bad place to play with that, given the curvy roads, narrow lanes, and tons of trees.
• DarmokJalad1701 6y ago
  Anyone who has used Autopilot would know that you cannot currently turn it on if there are no lane markers. And there were no lane markers on the street where this happened (and they started driving on that street). And now logs show that AP wasn't enabled.
  • mimixco 6y ago
    This video, made after the crash, seems to demonstrate that it does actually turn on without lane markings... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26870417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26870417