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'Extensive' Tesla Autopilot probe proceeding 'really fast'

reuters.com

14 pointsmfiguiere9 comments

As a Tesla owner, I hope something comes of this.

I’ve been actively peering into Tesla driver’s windows during my commute for about a year now and I’ve seen multiple drivers apparently napping and MANY who are two hand clutching a phone or book with their heads down.

I suppose my ideal solution would be better “awareness monitoring” tech from Tesla combined with a law enforcement push to really hammer AP abusers. Eg: you get caught sleeping with some AP keepalive device installed? Huge fine and they immediately call a tow truck

At the risk of sounding like a tesla fanboy, this seems crazy to me. NHTSA investing significant resources into 36 crashes over the past 6 years? This seems like an impossibly low number of crashes.

Intuition tells me there must be _many_ more crashes caused by various other manufacturing defects or various other issues caused by "scant oversight".

Perhaps they believe (or know) that 36 is not the total.

I thought full self driving would be better than it is. My intuition tells me that not treating these self driving crashes like a regular manufacturing defect is wise.

The NHTSA opened an investigation on sticky pedals in Toyota vehicles after three crashes. 36 crashes caused by a defect is comparatively enormous.

I think a lot of this depends on how often drivers use the AP feature, and how many close calls have been caused by the AP. It's also pretty important to get an idea of the timeline of those crashes. If there was a spike in crashes after a software patch, then that would definitely warrant an investigation.

Also the accidents they have caused are pretty significant. There does appear to be a bug that causes a Tesla to slam on the breaks for no reason, and this has caused multi-car pileups.

Whats up with reuters links? Anytime I click on a story from them I just end up on their homepage. I have to copy/paste the URL into an archive site for it to work. Does this happen to anyone else? iOS/safari user here.

iOS/safari here and works fine for me.

Hopefully not as fast as teslas proceed into stationary objects

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