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Tesla's Autopilot was Engaged when Model 3 Crashed into Truck, Report States

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.

Fnord666 writes:

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) by chewbacon on Friday May 17 2019, @10:38PM (1 child)

    by chewbacon (1032) on Friday May 17 2019, @10:38PM (#844865)

    Many many more deaths occur hourly in non-autonomous vehicle crashes.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday May 18 2019, @04:39AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Saturday May 18 2019, @04:39AM (#844933)

    I don't see where that is relevant to the story. After all that is 'the normal state of affairs.'
    And as a former driver trainer IMHO this crash simply would not of occurred in a non-autonomous vehicle with an undistracted driver with reasonable competence.

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