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>The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights, a police report said, when Tillman Mitchell, 17, stepped off one afternoon in Marc
by kernal 3y ago
>The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights, a police report said, when Tillman Mitchell, 17, stepped off one afternoon in March. Then a Tesla Model Y approached on North Carolina Highway 561.
>The car – allegedly in Autopilot mode – never slowed down.
>It struck Mitchell at 45 mph. The teenager was thrown into the windshield, flew into the air and landed face down in the road, according to his great-aunt, Dorothy Lynch. Mitchell’s father heard the crash and rushed from his porch to find his son lying in the middle of the road.
>“If it had been a smaller child,” Lynch said, “the child would be dead.”
Elon should really stop the yearly Level 5 promises. Also, that driver should be charged with negligence.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago> Elon should really stop the yearly Level 5 promises. Also, that driver should be charged with negligence. AutoPilot has little to do with FSD though. I’m assuming these are accidents related to autopilot rather than FSD, or the article would have been titled differently?
- sowbug 3y ago"Also, that driver should be charged with negligence." It's surprising this isn't the first (and maybe only) salient point. Autopilot is a slightly more capable cruise control. If a driver sets a car to drive 45 mph and then stops paying attention, who's at fault when the car hits something? The car was doing exactly what it was supposed to do. (As pointed out from another commenter, the article is about Autopilot, not FSD.)