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> Why didn’t the car react to the aircraft? Did it not detect it, or did it fail to judge it’s location?

According to https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/is_is/GUID-6B9A1AE...

> Smart Summon may not stop for all objects (especially very low objects such as some curbs, or very high objects such as a shelf) and may not react to all traffic.

The tail of the plane was quite high, so smart summon probably wasn't trained to recognize it.

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I would expect some sensor to detect some kind of impact/resistance and just stop. I mean if my robot vacuum can do it, I'd think a machine capable of killing someone would too.

But maybe that's a feature that'll come with their Level 4 autonomous software that'll come out very soon now /s

So we can’t even get an AI to recognize basic obstacles in its path but self driving cars are coming any day now ?

I am puzzled at how a system with such basic bugs is rolled out to production. Even obstacle detection hasn’t been solved yet. Yes it might be hard but an 8 year old in a GoKart would do better than this.

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