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.
Comment on New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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?!
RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee 10 months ago
meco03211@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t understand why they’d sue Tesla.
Money. Tesla has much more money than the drunk.
themajesticdodo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because of Tesla’s exaggerated advertising.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even my relatively ‘dumb’ car […] handles […] better than Tesla?!
Not going to be the last time when you experience that :-)
daikiki@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your relatively ‘dumb’ car probably doesn’t try to gauge distance exclusively by interpreting visual data from cameras.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Wait, the Model X doesn’t have RADAR/LIDAR to supplement the cameras?
masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No, they were too expensive for Musk
madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Holy shit… This is worse than I thought
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The video said the car has radar
lemann@lemmy.one 10 months ago
IIRC Tesla disabled all of their dedicated hardware sensors in an OTA update, due to these sensors being excluded from new vehicles manufactured during the shortage. The autopilot system is vision only now, despite the engineers best efforts to keep hardware sensors in the vehicles
www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision
carbuzz.com/…/tesla-scrapping-radar-plans-and-upg… (Sensationalised but contains additional details missing from Tesla’s site)