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Autonomous Tesla fails to stop, kills test driver.
Not surprised. My boss has one, the auto pilot mode is not ready for prime time. Thing was all over the lane, trying to follow the exit ramps when we wanted to go straight.
Not a fan of their response about being in beta testing (nice to beta test with your customers lives) and how they "stressed the uniqueness of the situation that led to his death. The vehicle was illuminated by a brightly lit sky. It's called the sun, its out there every day. Maybe they need some more testing first.....
Brandon
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The actuaries over at Tesla must be working overtime. They kept referring to the guy as "the first" fatality in a way that suggests they expected to have fatalities during testing.
then they drop in the "The vehicle was illuminated by a brightly lit sky, according to the company, making it difficult for both Brown and the car’s Autopilot system to detect it in time", yikes, so these things are safe as long as not operated in the daylight? Wow
RIP to the test driver, I hope the family gets paid.
Not surprised. My boss has one, the auto pilot mode is not ready for prime time. Thing was all over the lane, trying to follow the exit ramps when we wanted to go straight.
Not a fan of their response about being in beta testing (nice to beta test with your customers lives) and how they "stressed the uniqueness of the situation that led to his death. The vehicle was illuminated by a brightly lit sky. It's called the sun, its out there every day. Maybe they need some more testing first.....
In all fairness to Tesla, the drivers are required to manually activate the autopilot feature on their car; they have to sign/acknowledge the fact that it is a beta feature, and that they're required to maintain hands on the wheel and pay attention to the road. Many people, however, choose to enable it and then abdicate their duty as a driver. Their mention of the sun was in regard to one possible reason why the driver didn't brake; the sun has no effect on the car's radar and ultrasonic sensors that it uses to detect objects in front of it. The issue with that is that, underneath a trailer, there's a big old heaping helping of nothing. The sensors can't detect anything because there's nothing in the sensors' path to reflect the signal back to the sensor. Hence why, again, drivers are supposed to be watching the road.
That reminds me: An update to the story is that the car sheared the roof off and continued until it crashed in someone's backyard. A DVD player was found in the car, but the state police isn't saying if it was playing at the time of the accident.
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