The NHTSA investigation into Tesla's autonomous and semi-autonomous driving tech has been upgraded to an 'engineering analysis'.
“The agency’s analysis of these sixteen subject first responder and road maintenance vehicle crashes indicated that Forward Collision Warnings activated in the majority of incidents immediately prior to impact and that subsequent Automatic Emergency Braking intervened in approximately half of the collisions. On average in these crashes, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact.
The agency also revealed some details into the specific crashes, showing that — in most cases — they had reason to believe that the Tesla drivers would have been able to see the stopped emergency vehicles an average of 8 seconds prior to the impact, but that none of them took evasive action on their own.
“All subject crashes occurred on controlled-access highways. Where incident video was available, the approach to the first responder scene would have been visible to the driver an average of 8 seconds leading up to impact. Additional forensic data available for eleven of the collisions indicated that no drivers took evasive action between 2–5 seconds prior to impact, and the vehicle reported all had their hands on the steering wheel leading up to the impact.
The way I read this — and I know I have to tread lightly here — is that many of these cases involved inattentive drivers who were abusing the Tesla Autopilot feature. Which, frankly, isn’t a new thing. Below is one idiot who kept hanging out in the back seat of his Tesla while on Autopilot, despite having been previously arrested for hanging out in the back seat of his Tesla while on Autopilot. See for yourself.This is abuse, sure. This isn’t what these systems are intended for.
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