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> Furthermore, officers reported “autopilot interference,” which caused “a delay when officers shift into drive” and also triggered an automatic stop when offic
by diggan 2y ago
> Furthermore, officers reported “autopilot interference,” which caused “a delay when officers shift into drive” and also triggered an automatic stop when officers tried to pull over to the side of the road, possibly because the car assumed the vehicle was wrongfully veering off course.
It sounds like the police, just like Tesla and the Cybertruck, are testing these things out in the public?! Wouldn't these issues be discovered before these cars were actually deployed, like in a simulated road stop or something? Seems a bit bananas that they discovered these issues once officers use these cars in public.
- dspillett 2y ago> are testing these things out in the public?! Long gone are the days that they could afford to arrange proper pre-live-environment testing for anything like this. Even if much testing is done away from the live environment some testing period is still going to be needed before full roll-out (though this seems to be earlier stage testing than that).
- throwup238 2y agoAs far as I know South Pasadena is the only one that has converted their entire fleet to Teslas. It’s a small city in the middle of suburban LA with zero off roading and they borrow lots of resources from the Pasadena PD so the limitations probably aren’t that big a deal. There’s not a lot going on in the town so if someone is getting arrested half the officers on duty show up anyway. Other departments are running smaller trials or converting to more suitable cars like the F-150 Lightning mentioned in the article.