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Tesla says fatal crash on Hwy 101 in Mountain View, CA involved Autopilot
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:33 am
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:33 am
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Tesla has provided another update to last week's fatal crash. As it turns out, Tesla said the driver had Autopilot on with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. However, it seems the driver ignored the vehicle's warnings to take back control.
"The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision," Tesla wrote in a blog post. "The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken."
Watch the video. It's obvious the car got confused by the line in the pavement and instead of following the white shoulder line it drove the car directly into the barrier.
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This post was edited on 3/31/18 at 9:38 am
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Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:36 am to Street Hawk
i can't believe people are willing to be the beta test on a robot car. i think we'll eventually get there but it is way fricking early to hand over control to a robot at 90 mph on the fricking freeway.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:39 am to Street Hawk
Elon Musk is spread too thin. He's sending a Tesla into orbit while his Model 3 is woefully behind schedule. He's got too many irons in the fire.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:42 am to drexyl
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i can't believe people are willing to be the beta test on a robot car.
I can't believe they trust it enough to not pay more attention and be ready to take control back in an instant. I would be on pins and needles.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:43 am to Street Hawk
I will never feel comfortable in an automated car on imperfect roads with imperfect drivers. Programmers simply cannot capture every single abnormality the average driver is likely to face on roads that are subject to shoddy upkeep and people subject to stupidity.
I know this because I am a programmer.
I know this because I am a programmer.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:44 am to S1C EM
What the hell.
How many people will car manufactures kill?
How many people will car manufactures kill?
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:45 am to slackster
quote:So, metaphorically-speaking, he should become larger to support adequate irons’ heating?
Elon Musk is spread too thin. He's sending a Tesla into orbit while his Model 3 is woefully behind schedule. He's got too many irons in the fire.
He’s impatient and I can’t blame him for wanting to push hard.
Break some eggs to make omelets kind of thing.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:45 am to Street Hawk
Apparently the driver set the autopilot to "Asian mode" shortly before impact
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:46 am to Mud_Till_May
quote:About what we lost in Vietnam in total over he next couple of years...
How many people will car manufactures kill?
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:47 am to drexyl
quote:
i can't believe people are willing to be the beta test on a robot car. i think we'll eventually get there but it is way fricking early to hand over control to a robot at 90 mph on the fricking freeway
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:51 am to soccerfüt
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Break some eggs to make omelets kind of thing
If my wife was one of those "eggs" that broke I'd clearly let Elon musk know that his omelette just cost him right around $50 million
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:57 am to Street Hawk
Doesn't matter what tech you put in the cars. You can't make people less stupid.
This post was edited on 3/31/18 at 9:58 am
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:58 am to crazycubes
People are so stupid.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 9:59 am to Mud_Till_May
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How many people will car manufactures kill?
Seriously? YOU are responsible for what your car does when you are behind the wheel. No one else.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 10:01 am to Street Hawk
My engineers warned Musk about these types of hangups, but i guess said warnings fell on deaf ears. Typical Penn smart-aleck. 
Posted on 3/31/18 at 10:04 am to drexyl
We just bought a car that offered driverless features, I said no thanks to all of them but the standard ones. Even those are obtrusive.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 10:05 am to S
S, I ditched my Penn educated “engineers” for a more polished and less plebeian type of engineering by going with Princeton and MIT grads exclusively.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 10:18 am to Street Hawk
We aren’t ready for this autopilot technology. Especially with the increased use of social media whilst driving.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 10:27 am to Street Hawk
Musk will get credited with getting the ball rolling, but with the Solar City legal issues and Model 3 production failures it will be interesting to see how the next round of funding goes. Funding needed just to pay off the billion dollars in debt coming due.
Posted on 3/31/18 at 10:40 am to PrivatePublic
Seems to me both the driver and Tesla shoulder the blame here.
First, the driver ignored warnings to take back control of the vehicle.
Second, Tesla should update the control program to have the car come to a stop and turn on flashers if the driver ignores the warning more than five seconds.
Better to have some yahoos honking their horns and flipping you off than to have the ME try to identify what's human and what's not out of the pile of ashes and debris the scrape up off the highway.
No way should auto-pilot run your arse into anything.
First, the driver ignored warnings to take back control of the vehicle.
Second, Tesla should update the control program to have the car come to a stop and turn on flashers if the driver ignores the warning more than five seconds.
Better to have some yahoos honking their horns and flipping you off than to have the ME try to identify what's human and what's not out of the pile of ashes and debris the scrape up off the highway.
No way should auto-pilot run your arse into anything.
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