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Yes, it's weird that car decided to turn right. But I don't agree that's it's easy to speculate that it would hit the pedestrians, they were pretty far. I would

Yes, it's weird that car decided to turn right. But I don't agree that's it's easy to speculate that it would hit the pedestrians, they were pretty far. I would think some emergency braking would take over or something. We have many thousands of tesla cars out there, lots of people are making videos about autopilot, but I don't think we have an example of a car actually hitting a pedestrian?

devb 5y ago
Two seconds of googling: Here's one: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-probing-fatal-tesla-crash-that-killed-pedestrian-2021-09-03/ https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-pro... Here's another: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/business/tesla-autopilot-accident.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/business/tesla-autopilot-... Oh, another one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2020/05/16/lawsuit-against-tesla-for-autopilot-engaged-pedestrian-death-could-disrupt-full-self-driving-progress/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2020/05/16/lawsuit-a... This appears to be the first one, in 2018: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/uber-self-driving-car-kills-woman-arizona-tempe https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/uber-self... I'd keep going but maybe you get the point.