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I watched a similar video recently, but a car ahead avoided an accident and the car where video was taken from was rammed in the back because of a sudden stop. Which make me think maybe Tesla's response wasn't the best possible.

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The best human driver would have the same constraint. The best you might do is flash the brake lights to get the guy's attention behind you, if you smell trouble, and then use medium braking force instead of full. A swerve to the shoulder or adjacent lane might be available, and a tesla would have the upper hand here on situational awareness, since it always knows what's alongside.

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The Tesla would be aware of the cars behind it as well, so this sounds unlikely

It wasn't a Tesla, couldn't find a video unfortunately.

So you vaguely remembered something vaguely related to this that you read somewhere?

At least with the original sensor suite, Teslas are not aware of cars behind them, except for within a couple feet with the ultrasonic sensors. There is no rear radar and the rear camera data is not processed.

> There is no rear radar and the rear camera data is not processed.

Erm (not a radar but cameras + CV/ML)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUw_DMaQ264

That's the new sensor suite.

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