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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times::Six officers who were injured in the crash are suing Tesla despite the fact that the driver was allegedly impaired

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Driver is definitely the one ultimately at fault here, but how is it that Tesla doesn’t perform an emergency stop in this situation - but just barrels into an obstacle?

Even my relatively ‘dumb’ car with adaptive cruise control handles this type of situation better than Tesla?!

[–] daikiki@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your relatively 'dumb' car probably doesn't try to gauge distance exclusively by interpreting visual data from cameras.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, the Model X doesn’t have RADAR/LIDAR to supplement the cameras?

[–] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they were too expensive for Musk

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit.... This is worse than I thought

[–] RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe this is caused by the fog combined with flashing lights and upward/curved road. The Tesla autopilot system is super impressive in almost all situations but you can clearly see the limits in extreme situations. Here, the drunk driver is definitely at fault, I don't understand why they'd sue Tesla.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why they'd sue Tesla.

Money. Tesla has much more money than the drunk.

[–] themajesticdodo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because of Tesla's exaggerated advertising.