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user-inactivated  ·  3070 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tesla driver killed in crash with Autopilot active, NHTSA investigating

Wonder if it was something like this:

Those things freak me out when I pass them, the bottom of the drive train is about eye level.





goobster  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This kind of accident, but with a flatbed trailer instead of a box trailer:

goobster  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My understanding is that a flatbed tractor-trailer was stopped across the road. So the Tesla system basically saw this from the side:

user-inactivated  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That makes a lot more sense, and I kinda got the feel that I was wrong when I started digging in a bit. Still sucks for everyone, though. 300 or so people a month are killed in accidents involving tractor trailer trucks, but this one accident because the nature of it is slightly different, will get the media hook.

BTW, I saw that the drive was did not have his hands on the wheel at the time of the accident and may have been watching a movie on a portable DVD player. Which makes me thing he was way overconfident in the tech.

goobster  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

His YouTube channel was nothing but examples of him showing off how good the autopilot was.