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Federal investigators announced Tuesday that the design of Tesla's semiautonomous driving system allowed the driver of a Tesla Model S in a fatal 2016 crash with a semi-truck to rely too heavily on the car's automation.
"Tesla allowed the driver to use the system outside of the environment for which it was designed," said National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt. "The system gave far too much leeway to the driver to divert his attention."
The board's report declares the primary probable cause of the collision as the truck driver's failure to yield, as well as the Tesla driver's overreliance on his car's automation — or Autopilot, as Tesla calls the system. Tesla's system design was declared a contributing factor.
[...] A Tesla spokesperson provided a statement to ABC News that read, "We appreciate the NTSB's analysis of last year's tragic accident, and we will evaluate their recommendations as we continue to evolve our technology. We will also continue to be extremely clear with current and potential customers that Autopilot is not a fully self-driving technology and drivers need to remain attentive at all times."
According to The Associated Press, members of Brown's family said on Monday that they do not blame the car or the Autopilot system for his death.
A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report on the crash can be found here. The NTSB has yet not published its full report; a synopsis of it can be found here.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Virindi on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:48PM (7 children)
What? How many people with a Tesla do you think actually go to a dictionary to verify the definition of "autopilot"? That's completely unrealistic. I am talking here about the impression the name gives to Joe Public, not the dictionary definition.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday September 13 2017, @09:55PM
This is why we can't have nice words.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Wednesday September 13 2017, @11:43PM (5 children)
Think of it as evolution in action. If a person gets killed or kills someone because they didn't bother to learn to drive a car for which they spent at least $68k, then fuck them. I get that everyone is not smart all the time, but we have to draw the line at high levels of negligence.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Virindi on Wednesday September 13 2017, @11:47PM (2 children)
Unfortunately, I drive the same roads as these people. So my life is also at risk by their behavior.
If they were doing it on their own farm road where there weren't any other drivers, I'd say have at it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @12:09AM (1 child)
He understands. He wrote or kills someone. If that someone is you, it's still evolution in action!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @02:49AM
Teela Brown ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @01:31AM (1 child)
If they kill someone else (without killing themselves) due to their incompetence, and then you fuck them, that person might successfully produce offspring.
It would be better not to fuck such a person.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:44PM
Are you from another planet? In our culture, the fantasized fucking of persons convicted of negligent homicide (among many other offenses), is universally male-on-male. I really don't think GP needs to worry about reproduction, although it might be good if they could stop fantasizing about prison rape.