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A Tesla Model 3 hit a police car in Orlando, driver said she was ‘in Autopilot’

25 points by oblib 5y ago

SevenSigs 5y ago
hitting park cars... thanks to autopilot
cyanydeez 5y ago
hopefully insurance company denies her, she gets cnarged with assault and sues tesla
- Jxl180 5y ago
  Assault for hitting a parked car? Let’s wait for the results of the investigation before we play judge, Jury, and executioner.
atatatat 5y ago
Autoviolence
cheaprentalyeti 5y ago
"But the most amazing thing is that I didn't die. My Starship landed on top of a police car. And it died."
frumper 5y ago
This news report is lacking some important details like whether autopilot caused the car to go outside the lane when it hit or if the police car was in the lane why the driver didn’t react.
comradesmith 5y ago
I wonder if autopilot was actually on? Surely people are going to try to blame autopilot falsely to try to shirk responsibility (which I imagine won’t work whatsoever). Will governments want a way for law enforcement to quickly audit autopilot status as this becomes more widespread technology?
- foerbert 5y ago
  I'm not sure why you're finding this particularly doubt-wowrthy. Tesla autopilot doesn't have the most amazingly clean history - particularly when it comes to this exact sort of situation. It does not handle stationary obstacles in a lane very well. It's even been a somewhat popular topic recently.
  - parineum 5y ago
    > It's even been a somewhat popular topic recently. Which is a great reason to start judging the claim a bit more skeptically than normal. Once the press latch on to a theme, they can be incredibly quick to make it an epidemic at the expense of due diligence.
    - foerbert 5y ago
      I suppose so, but this sort of problem has been pretty well documented as actually being a thing. I was also referring more to techie-type arenas, I don't know that I've seen much about this so specifically recently in major media outlets. Even if it was... it seems pretty clear this is the exact type of problem you'd expect to see a Tesla have. If you're at the point where you're doubting it simply because other people might know it's a problem... eventually you kind of lose the ability to function here, as the mere knowledge of doubt makes you doubt the doubt, and when does that end? Hell, we've all heard lots recently about the media being so bad...
  - comradesmith 5y ago
    Oh I’m sure that autopilot is going to make this kind of mistake or may be at fault here. But I am equally sure that someone will one day try to lie about having autopilot on to get out of a traffic accident.
- theshrike79 5y ago
  This is like the Prius stuck accelerator bug that actually affected like two people ever. There were ten times as much people claiming their own crashes on a stuck accelerator - not knowing that the Prius logs this kind of stuff and it can be checked after the fact.
MiddleEndian 5y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd

25 points by oblib 5y ago

SevenSigs 5y ago

hitting park cars... thanks to autopilot

cyanydeez 5y ago

hopefully insurance company denies her, she gets cnarged with assault and sues tesla

Jxl180 5y ago
Assault for hitting a parked car? Let’s wait for the results of the investigation before we play judge, Jury, and executioner.

atatatat 5y ago

Autoviolence

cheaprentalyeti 5y ago

"But the most amazing thing is that I didn't die. My Starship landed on top of a police car. And it died."

frumper 5y ago

This news report is lacking some important details like whether autopilot caused the car to go outside the lane when it hit or if the police car was in the lane why the driver didn’t react.

comradesmith 5y ago

I wonder if autopilot was actually on? Surely people are going to try to blame autopilot falsely to try to shirk responsibility (which I imagine won’t work whatsoever). Will governments want a way for law enforcement to quickly audit autopilot status as this becomes more widespread technology?

foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're finding this particularly doubt-wowrthy. Tesla autopilot doesn't have the most amazingly clean history - particularly when it comes to this exact sort of situation. It does not handle stationary obstacles in a lane very well. It's even been a somewhat popular topic recently.
- parineum 5y ago
  > It's even been a somewhat popular topic recently. Which is a great reason to start judging the claim a bit more skeptically than normal. Once the press latch on to a theme, they can be incredibly quick to make it an epidemic at the expense of due diligence.
  - foerbert 5y ago
    I suppose so, but this sort of problem has been pretty well documented as actually being a thing. I was also referring more to techie-type arenas, I don't know that I've seen much about this so specifically recently in major media outlets. Even if it was... it seems pretty clear this is the exact type of problem you'd expect to see a Tesla have. If you're at the point where you're doubting it simply because other people might know it's a problem... eventually you kind of lose the ability to function here, as the mere knowledge of doubt makes you doubt the doubt, and when does that end? Hell, we've all heard lots recently about the media being so bad...
- comradesmith 5y ago
  Oh I’m sure that autopilot is going to make this kind of mistake or may be at fault here. But I am equally sure that someone will one day try to lie about having autopilot on to get out of a traffic accident.
theshrike79 5y ago
This is like the Prius stuck accelerator bug that actually affected like two people ever. There were ten times as much people claiming their own crashes on a stuck accelerator - not knowing that the Prius logs this kind of stuff and it can be checked after the fact.

MiddleEndian 5y ago

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd