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Tesla crashed into stationary truck with Autopilot on

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Autopilot is supposed to make driving experience convenient, particularly in long trips. However, it is not the endgame and neither it absolve driver from being vigilant.

Tesla cannot be blamed for stupidity of a customer. Use of smartphone while driving is not just a violation of traffic rules but sheer stupidity.
 
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Lol, you are such a American hater, you had to go and find a 2 month old article '

I assume you didn't even read your article, because it says

According to Tesla's account given to police based on data from the vehicle, the driver misused Autopilot, driving for periods in excess of one minute and only touching the steering wheel after a visual alert.

"About one minute and 22 seconds before the crash, she re-enabled Autosteer and Cruise Control, and then, within two seconds, took her hands off the steering wheel again. She did not touch the steering wheel for the next 80 seconds until the crash happened; this is consistent with her admission that she was looking at her phone at the time," Tesla wrote.

"Contrary to the proper use of Autopilot, the driver did not pay attention to the road at all times, did not keep her hands on the steering wheel, and she used it on a street with no center median and with stoplight-controlled intersections."


in summary, autopilot does not suddenly mean 0 crashes, it does no just drive you everywhere with you putting in 0 care, that is not even allowed by law, even in decades to come when autonomous vehicles will be everywhere, there still will be crashes, technology can still mess up, but a lot less than human error.

Anyways, here is Euro NCAP 2018 Automated Testing

 
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Lol, you are such a American hater, you had to go and find a 2 month old article '

I assume you didn't even read your article, because it says

According to Tesla's account given to police based on data from the vehicle, the driver misused Autopilot, driving for periods in excess of one minute and only touching the steering wheel after a visual alert.

"About one minute and 22 seconds before the crash, she re-enabled Autosteer and Cruise Control, and then, within two seconds, took her hands off the steering wheel again. She did not touch the steering wheel for the next 80 seconds until the crash happened; this is consistent with her admission that she was looking at her phone at the time," Tesla wrote.

"Contrary to the proper use of Autopilot, the driver did not pay attention to the road at all times, did not keep her hands on the steering wheel, and she used it on a street with no center median and with stoplight-controlled intersections."


in summary, autopilot does not suddenly mean 0 crashes, it does no just drive you everywhere with you putting in 0 care, that is not even allowed by law, even in decades to come when autonomous vehicles will be everywhere, there still will be crashes, technology can still mess up, but a lot less than human error.

Anyways, here is Euro NCAP 2018 Automated Testing


He probably doesn't even drive so he doesn't understand the limits of cruise control.
 
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Basically Tesla push untested unproved crap tech to market to create hype, and treat their customers as their "beta" testers, thats the typical american business style:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tesla...or-crashing-on-autopilot-while-reading-phone/
No it's not like that. In these cases it's mostly the driver's fault. Tesla hasn't rolled out a FULLY AUTONOMOUS DRIVERLESS autopilot to its customers yet. All the versions rolled out so far specifically require that the driver be vigilante and ready to take over AT ALL TIMES.

What usually ends up happening is the driver starts slacking...thinking that the car will be fine on its own...but obviously as with any new tech it needs time to mature. There are going to be numerous scenarios where the car's sensors can misread the situation. So I don't understand why ppl fault the car and not the driver? That's like if a driver puts a brick on a Toyota Corolla's accelerator and stops paying attention to the road and being in control...then when it crashes call the car and car manufacturer stupid.
 
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