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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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[–] CaptainProton 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

This is stupid. Teslas can park themselves, they're not just on rails. It should be pulling over and putting the flashers on if a driver is unresponsive.

That being said, the driver knew this behavior, acted with wanton disregard for safe driving practices, and so the incident is the driver's fault and they should be held responsible for their actions. It's not the courts job to legislate.

It's actually the NTSB's job to regulate car safety so if they don't already have it congress needs to grant them the authority to regulate what AI behavior is acceptable/define safeguards against misbehaving AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It should be pulling over and putting the flashers on if a driver is unresponsive.

Yes. Actually, just stopping in the middle of the road with hazard lights would be sufficient.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You say that yet a Tesla did exactly that, which caused some tailgaters to crash into the back of it, and everyone blamed the Tesla for causing an accident.

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/

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