Tesla has now reviewed the logs and says that there’s “no data to suggest that Autopilot was engaged at the time of the incident."
http://electrek.co/2016/07/06/tesla-model-x-rollover-acciden...
http://electrek.co/2016/07/06/tesla-model-x-rollover-acciden...
“We received an automated alert from this vehicle on July 1 indicating airbag deployment, but logs containing detailed information on the state of the vehicle controls at the time of the collision were never received. This is consistent with damage of the severity reported in the press, which can cause the antenna to fail. As we do with all crash events, we immediately reached out to the customer to confirm they were ok and offer support but were unable to reach him. We have since attempted to contact the customer three times by phone without success. Based on the information we have now, we have no reason to believe that Autopilot had anything to do with this accident.”
Tesla has no idea if their autopilot was engaged. They lost communications during the crash, probably when the vehicle rolled over.
The customer told the Penn. state trooper involved that they were on autopilot at the time.
This is an extremely misleading interpretation of the article. The article says Tesla has only reviewed the basic crash logs, which don't contain information about autopilot state. The detailed crash logs, which have this information, have not been received because the antenna was damaged in the crash.
So Tesla has only reviewed cursory information that says nothing about autopilot state; therefore, they can state they have "no data [suggesting] autopilot was engaged". But you cannot conclude autopilot was not engaged, because there is critical data missing.
Very misleading.
is a quoted directly from the article. It is also the title of the story.
The trend on these Telsa / EV blogs has been to take Tesla's logs as gospel and discount human observation.
There have been other reports of users claiming autopilot being engaged when it was not and reports of not noticing that summon was enabled even though one can't really miss that (that has subsequently been redesigned).
Human factors for these systems is incredibly challenging since such a wide audience of users useses them.