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posted by martyb on Friday May 17 2019, @09:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-your-eyes-on-the-road-and-your-hands-on-the-wheel dept.

Tesla's advanced driver assist system, Autopilot, was active when a Model 3 driven by a 50-year-old Florida man crashed into the side of a tractor-trailer truck on March 1st, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) states in a report released on Thursday. Investigators reviewed video and preliminary data from the vehicle and found that neither the driver nor Autopilot "executed evasive maneuvers" before striking the truck.

[...] The driver, Jeremy Beren Banner, was killed in the crash. It is at least the fourth fatal crash of a Tesla vehicle involving Autopilot.

This crash is eerily similar to another one involving a Tesla in 2016 near Gainesville, Florida. In that incident, Joshua Brown was killed when his Model S sedan collided with a semitrailer truck on a Florida highway in May 2016, making him the first known fatality in a semi-autonomous car.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) determined that a "lack of safeguards" contributed to Brown's death. Meanwhile, today's report is just preliminary, and the NTSB declined to place blame on anyone.

Source: The Verge

Also at Ars Technica.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 17 2019, @02:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 17 2019, @02:33PM (#844710)

    My father had access to an off road area to teach me to drive, which he did. I was 5 years old when I "solo-ed" in a stick shift vehicle. I believe that lots of farm kids have a similar experience. Helps a lot to know the basics of vehicle control when it's time to get licensed (at 16 or whatever age).

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