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0%. This is entirely on the driver. He's someone who should spend a few years in prison, and then never be allowed to have a license again.

A foot on the gas overrides braking on autopilot and causes it to flash up a large message up on the screen that "Autopilot will not break / Accelerator pedal is pressed"

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Yet almost any other car made after that tesla (and much cheaper) will automated break if it's about to hit something, no AI involved, just radar obstacle detection.

> any other car made after that tesla (and much cheaper) will automated break if it's about to hit something,

My 2015 Tesla S brakes if it detects something in its path using radar and usually correctly identifies the object type (truck, car, motorcycle, cyclist, pedestrian) using the camera.

Good for you, but

1) didn't they drop the radar?

2) clearly didn't work in this case

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