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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by coolgopher on Saturday May 18 2019, @12:53AM (1 child)
I'd also say that at least a quarter of the human drivers on our roads were allowed on insanely prematurely.
In the end, I figure it kinda squares out. Humans do really dumb and dangerous things, robots do really dumb and dangerous things. *shrug* As a driver it's my job to be prepared for others doing dumb and dangerous things, and ideally not inflict such dumb and dangerous stuff on others.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday May 18 2019, @09:45PM
>robots do really dumb and dangerous things
systemd made me do it
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