> which the NTSB determined had been damaged and repaired more frequently than any other left-exit in Caltrans' District 4, which includes all of the Bay Area.
...and CHP not doing their job:
> The California Highway Patrol responded to the March 12 crash but did not notify Caltrans of the damage as required, the NTSB said.
> Huang's 2017 Tesla Model X was traveling at 71 mph when it crashed against the same attenuator, which the NTSB determined had been damaged and repaired more frequently than any other left-exit in Caltrans' District 4, which includes all of the Bay Area.
If a self-driving car isn't safer than a sober professional driver, then wouldn't it be logical to just have people ride the bus instead of wasting resources on tech? I knew a bus driver who went a million miles without an accident.
If every million human drivers have one accident and every 1000 Teslas have a similar accident then yes, it is a vehicle safety problem.
An auto driving system needs to have a higher margin of safety than a human driver not the same or worse.
You don't know that the driver would still be alive if the lanes were painted correctly etc.
Autopilot could still misidentify the barrier as we've seen it do in other situations.
It is absolutely a road design and maintenance issue.
It just seems like an edge case that's catching inattentive drivers off guard, which IMHO is a category including Tesla's on autopilot. And it seems Tesla agrees here; they require drivers pay attention when using Autopilot. If your vehicle runs into a barrier on Autopilot, you weren't paying attention.
For a good portion of the year, you can’t rely on being able to see any road markings in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest.