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From Electrek.co:
Just a few weeks ago, we published a report about how Tesla's new radar technology for the Autopilot is already proving useful in some potentially dangerous situations. We now have a new piece of evidence that is so spectacularly clear that it's worth updating that report.
The video of an accident on the highway in the Netherlands caught on the dashcam of a Tesla Model X shows the Autopilot's forward collision warning predicting an accident before it could be detected by the driver.
[...] In the video embedded below, we can hear the Tesla Autopilot's Forward Collision Warning sending out an alert for seemingly no reason, but a fraction of a second later we understand why when the vehicle in front of the Tesla crashes into an SUV that wasn't visible from the standpoint of the Tesla driver, but apparently it was for the Autopilot's radar.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @06:27AM
Maybe from the Tesla driver's position the SUV was really visible. The red car has the right wheel near the marks from the start of the video ("nervous" dude or unable to keep lane?). Anyway, to the safety issue.
Use the bridge as reference and time when the cars pass the column... what is that? 1 second difference? 2 tops. That is driving dangerously, some places have a 2 second rule, but others a 3, for a reason: better safe than sorry. Stop being so macho, go with 3 or more.
So yeah, the system saved him... from bad driving. And yes, I know, if you leave space in front of you, some asshole will take over and use it. Still an asshole, and still too short distances if we keep playing that asshole game. As demostrated by the collision, because the distance between the others was wrong too.
It should had been beeping about wrong distance all the way. Or maybe they disabled that because the "game" is too common. Luckily the other cars (the black and the grey, but specially the black) in the right side lane had enough with so short notice to brake and go out of the road, because it could have been a serious mountain of cars otherwise (you can see more cars out of the road and braking far ahead... there was something really bad going on there, the black probably noticed as you see it was already going out of the lane early). Cars that are not Telsa, but typical euro compacts, the grey one looks old with that boxy shapes.
As said by other commenter, you can also see the SUV lights thru the red car windows. Maybe the auto^H^H^H^Hpilot assist "saw" that, and "thought" the red car was already braking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:03PM
While I'd go with 3 secs apparently it's enough for the driver - from the video there was plenty of room left between the car and the SUV when the car stopped.