Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train

Appreciate hindsight is 20/20 but:

(Hard to judge from dashcam) but car seems to be going fairly quickly for the conditions. Low light, low viz, curving road... and surely the moment you see flashing lights up ahead (ie from the very start of the posted video!) you take your foot off the gas and reduce speed?

Don't see much situational awareness on display, either from the car's autopilot or the human behind the wheel. Strategy of blindly following the road at constant speed, hoping it will work.

Oh, and how did the (human) driver get so close to the crossing before taking any kind of action? If they'd hit the brakes even a few seconds earlier there would have been no need to steer off the road.

Threads link with slightly better videos: https://www.threads.net/@vantazach/post/C7IgkEAOIlu/?xmt=AQG...

Never understood the point of these car autopilots, or whatever the marketing speak, when you still have to pay full attention to what the car is doing and your surroundings.

What's the big advantage? Paying attention and anticipating everything is the hardest part of (regular) driving anyway.

This is glorified cruise control but a million times harder to implement.

"Twice"?

After the first time my car tries to autosteer into a train, I am no longer using that function of the car. But then again I'm also not driving that fast around turns in the fog (assuming it isn't just a bad camera, and that is actually ad visibility), so I guess my risk calculus is different from this person.

Visibility seems very poor. Beyond where the system should or could safely operate.

Maybe it could see better, doubtful, but too fast for conditions and the operator allowed for it.