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Tesla Driver Blames Autopilot for Crash, Faces Negligent Driving Charge

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 02 2020, @07:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-your-eyes-on-the-road dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/06/tesla-driver-blames-autopilot-for-crash-into-police-car/

A Massachusetts man is facing a negligent-driving charge after his Tesla slammed into a police car that was parked by the side of the road. According to a state trooper, the man had Tesla's Autopilot technology turned on and said that he "must not have been paying attention." The crash occurred in December, but the defendant, Nicholas Ciarlone, was only recently charged in the incident.
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Tesla is aiming to build a more sophisticated self-driving system that fully understands the surrounding environment. Hopefully, Tesla's "full self-driving" software will eventually detect a situation like this and respond appropriately. But as of at least last December, the technology seems to still be a work in progress.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @02:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @02:36PM (#1015404)

    Driving on suspended and driving with no license are already "jailable". There are lots of people sitting in jail because they have to work, but can't legally transport themselves. Most of the time, their licenses weren't suspended for driving poorly, but as a consequence of being charged with a crime and being too poor to pay the court in what it considers to be a timely manner (which is strangely much shorter than what it views as timely in trials and sentencing).

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @05:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 02 2020, @05:46PM (#1015465)

    Right. I had a friend who drove for years without a license - or registration, or insurance - for that reason. We lived in the middle of nowhere, and he couldn't afford to move anywhere with public transportation. So his two choices were "drive illegally" and "lose your income, and then your apartment".

    So that leads me to my alternative suggestion to ledow: how about taxpayer-funded transit systems that don't suck, all over the country? Then you can make ultra stringent requirements for bus drivers and train crews, and everyone else can still travel where they need to go.