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The reason it wasn’t the moment of the crash is because it’s programmed to disengage if a crash can’t be avoided so that Tesla can skirt liability.

This would be like a drunk driver letting go of the wheel the moment before a crash and telling the judge, ‘your honor. I wasn’t driving when the car wrecked.’

I hope Tesla gets held accountable.

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
More like a drunk Uber driver jumping out while you’re in the backseat and yelling “you got this” on the way out.

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- treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lol, yeah. Like that.
  
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- Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Except he was in the front driver seat, with access to everything needed to bring it to a safe stop.
  
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JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It turns off so that it doesn’t do anything stupid after the cash as the sensors or systems might be damaged, it still gets counted as a crash where autopilot was active.

www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

We also receive a crash alert anytime a crash is reported to us from the fleet, which may include data about whether Autopilot was active at the time of impact. To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact, and we count all crashes in which the incident alert indicated an airbag or other active restraint deployed. <…> In practice, this correlates to nearly any crash at about 12 mph (20 kph) or above, depending on the crash forces generated. We do not differentiate based on the type of crash or fault

And if the time between the crash and autopilot disengaging is over 5 seconds, I think “your honor. I wasn’t driving when the car wrecked, it was the autopilot” doesn’t work either, especially as you are still always responsible for what the car does, autopilot or not.

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Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I hope Tesla gets held accountable.

Why would this not be the driver’s fault? There are no completely autonomous diving cars(i know there technically are but they are very limited) so the driver is responsible for paying attention. Why didn’t the driver brake or take any kind of evasive maneuver?

The Tesla was traveling 70 mph (112.7 kilometers per hour) on four-lane U.S. 29 near Opal, and was 25 mph over the 45 mph speed limit in that area,

I guess autopilot made the choice to speed too?

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- czech@low.faux.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Because Musk overstates what Teslas are capable of. It’s why Tesla is being sued by shareholders (Lamontagne v Tesla).
  
  Anecdotally, five years ago, my Uber was driving a Tesla and insisted it was fully autonomous and he could text without issue.
  
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