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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times (www.carscoops.com)
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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times::Six officers who were injured in the crash are suing Tesla despite the fact that the driver was allegedly impaired

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nope. For whatever reason, Musk decided to just use cameras

[–] AnotherRyguy 10 points 1 year ago

"Whatever reason" is obviously just trying to cut corners and improve the bottom line with no regard for the consequences.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A few years ago, they were experimenting with LIDAR (most other car makers had it already then).

Then they abandoned it, even though everyone in the world thought that they need it so badly.

Now we see one of the results.