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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] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He was reacting to alerts, complying to them by simply touching the steering wheel. He did that 150 times during that 45 minute trip ( not all the trip was on auto pilot).

So if the guy died the car would of disengaged auto pilot (I'm not sure how this works).

You can check the video in the article. It's quite informative .

Edit

I saw another video and it takes ~60 seconds after taking off your hand from the steering wheel for the car to safely come to a full stop.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the headline should be "drunk driver hits police car."

[–] Landmammals 3 points 1 year ago

Was he drunk? The article seems to use the fact that the car nagged him 150 times as evidence that he was impaired.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TBH if you're not used to it the steering wheel check can warn frequently. It's checking for a small amount of torque on the wheel rather than actually holding it (as there are no pressure sensors) and that catches people out but the prompt says to put your hands on the wheel.. I could believe 150 times on a long journey.