Tesla's in hot water again. A man died when his Model X crashed end-on into a concrete lane divider in California on March 23.
See:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/t...nings-ignored/
This weekend, the company revealed the car was operating in autopilot mode. Their statement also appears to shift blame: there was an apparent lack of situational awareness of the driver (ignored warnings), as well as a missing highway safety barrier that would have absorbed some of the impact energy:
Quote:
In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision. The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken.
The reason this crash was so severe is because the crash attenuator, a highway safety barrier which is designed to reduce the impact into a concrete lane divider, had been crushed in a prior accident without being replaced.
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See:
https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-la...0%99s-accident