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posted by janrinok on Sunday April 29 2018, @08:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-invisible-friend dept.

A driver using Tesla Autopilot improperly was caught on camera by another driver, leading to his arrest:

A driver who moved into the passenger seat after putting his electric car into autopilot while at 40mph on a motorway has been banned from driving.

Bhavesh Patel, 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at St Albans Crown Court. A witness in another car filmed him sitting in the passenger seat of his Tesla S 60 on the M1 between junctions 8 and 9 near Hemel Hempstead.

Patel said he was the "unlucky one who got caught", the court was told.

The footage was posted on social media before it was reported to the police.

Also at The Guardian.

As well as the 18-month driving ban he was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. He was also put on a 10-day rehabilitation programme and will have to pay £1,800 in costs.

[...] Road investigators were told by Tesla engineers that the autopilot function, including traffic-aware cruise control and auto-steer, was only intended to assist a "fully attentive driver".

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 29 2018, @08:23PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 29 2018, @08:23PM (#673473) Homepage

    Self-driving car operators are cancerous scum, and should be removed from motorways by summary execution.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @01:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @01:56AM (#673562)

    That's a really stupid idea!

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 30 2018, @04:33PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday April 30 2018, @04:33PM (#673794)

    Just make sure to regularly draw incorrect road lines which need to concrete dividers, and the problem will solve itself naturally.

    Which is the part that baffles me: we've had some pretty publicized instances of Autopilot failures, dating back to at least last year, yet here's a moron optimizing his odds of getting a Darwin award. Was he eating Fugu fish at the same time?