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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @07:09PM
That's actually a big problem. Enough people seem to like to randomly tap on their brakes (even on clear roads in good weather with nothing ahead of them) that if I see brake lights ahead I first have to determine if they are just randomly tapping on their brakes again or actually panic stopping (or something in-between). That can end up using a sizable portion of my precious reaction time. I really wish that cars would do something like strobe the taillights during a hard stop to indicate to anyone behind them that they really need to hit their brakes too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @07:06PM
Strobe is bad. What should be done on hard braking is you should make them look like they are very rapidly getting closer (larger).
Either a "growing in size" pattern or actually make them look larger: http://phys.org/news/2007-03-collisions.html [phys.org]