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Tesla Autopilot's New Radar Technology Predicts an Accident Caught on Dashcam a Second Later

posted by on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-keep-your-hands-on-the-wheel dept.

"exec" writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:03PM (#448121)
    Seems like 2 secs to me from the road center markings.

    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.