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> I am not sure the Tesla has much to do with it. There are some scenarios in which a vehicle is accidentally backed into a pond up to the point where the occu
by mannykannot 3y ago
> I am not sure the Tesla has much to do with it.
There are some scenarios in which a vehicle is accidentally backed into a pond up to the point where the occupants are in grave risk of drowning, but not many. If this is not one of these scenarios, then the possibility that the vehicle was in an autonomous mode is one that should be considered (this applies to any vehicle with a level of autonomy sufficient to render such an event possible, not just Teslas.)
- dragonwriter 3y ago> There are some scenarios in which a vehicle is accidentally backed into a pond up to the point where the occupants are in grave risk of drowning, but not many. If this is not one of these scenarios The victim apparently said that it was one of those scenarios in a call to a neighbor when it occurred, so I don’t know why we need to speculate on autonomous driving being involved. It seems a lot more likely that, if a defect was involved, it was a “manual driving” control defect that contributed to the victim’s reported unintentional shift into reverse during the three-point turn, not a problem with autonomous driving.
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- mannykannot 3y agoOn reflection, I agree. Now I'm wondering if the vehicle in question accelerates about as fast in reverse as it does forwards. This is certainly possible with an electric drive, but it's probably not desirable.