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[January 23] a Tesla Model S slammed into a stationary firetruck at around 65mph on Interstate 405 in Culver City, California. The car was driven under the fire engine, although the driver was able to walk away from the crash uninjured and refused an offer of medical treatment.
The motorist claimed the Model S was driving with Autopilot enabled when it crammed itself under the truck. Autopilot is Tesla's super-cruise-control system. It's not a fully autonomous driving system.
[...] The fire truck was parked in the carshare lane of the road with its lights flashing. None of the fire crew were hurt, although Powell noted that if his team had been in their usual position at the back of the truck then there "probably would not have been a very good outcome."
Tesla will no doubt be going over the car's computer logs to determine exactly what happened, something the California Highway Patrol will also be interested in. If this was a case of the driver sticking on Autopilot, and forgetting their responsibility to watch the road ahead it wouldn't be the first time.
In 2016, a driver was killed after both he and the Tesla systems missed a lorry pulling across the highway. A subsequent investigation by the US National Transportation Safety Board found the driver was speeding and had been warned by the car six times to keep his hands on the wheel.
Tesla has since beefed up the alerts the car will give a driver if it feels they aren't paying full attention to the road. The safety board did note in its report that the introduction of Tesla's Autosteer software had cut collisions by 40 per cent.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday January 25 2018, @06:54AM (4 children)
You could, but it probably wouldn't do any good. The eds wood just reject it, or worse, accept it and then bury it in their own private limbo of hostile user subs. Besides, everyone knows that Mr. Powell is the guy that saved the shark from the Telsa with a drone off of Lummox head, in New Northwest Anglia. Thus the "lorry". But a reminder, the submission guidelines document says that English is the only acceptable language on SoylentNews, so we'll have none of the foreign British language around here. This is local news aggregator, for Local People! (alt-right)
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday January 25 2018, @06:42PM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:19PM (2 children)
Thanks for the response, janrinok! But it is off-topic. I was just responding to the response to criticism of the submission with the formerly valid, "if you don't like it, submit something yourself" response. Even if you do submit fair and unbiased submissions like I do, you can be rejected for no reason other than the political bias of a minority of the editorial team. (I don't include you in that group, janrinok.) I only submit things which I think will be of general interest to my fellow Soylentils. But it seems the "submit something yourself" obvious rebuttal is no longer appropriate.
Well, at least now we know who "Powell" is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:36PM (1 child)
You could y'know, try not spewing flamebait crap in your summaries. Please write a journal with links to the various stories you've had rejected, it would be interesting to see where the truth lies between janinrok's advice and your own idea of what is happening. I've only seen a few of your summaries that got rejected and at least one was pretty filled with flamebait crap. I've seen similar from other users, but as you point out there is a definite political bias by some of those who run this site.
So, compile that list of stories, I'll read the summaries and give you a trolling score. 0 trolling = good submission, 10 trolling you are the wooorst. I dunno, something like that.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:44PM
Thank you for the offer, but you are an AC? What would be the point of submitting things for your judgment? Perhaps is we had a mod system for submissions? Then a lowly AC's opinion might count, and we could all #freearistarchus!!!