Re:Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana
by sharmajai on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @08:11AM
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The Pennsylvania turnpike case hasn't been shown to involve autopilot yet. Tesla's logs have evidence to the contrary.
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Re:Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana
by Animats on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:08PM
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No, Tesla issued a somewhat deceptive press release to make people think that:
"Tesla received a message from the car on July 1st indicating a crash event, but logs were never transmitted. We have no data at this point to indicate that Autopilot was engaged or not engaged. This is consistent with the nature of the damage reported in the press, which can cause the antenna to fail."[1]
When that gets trimmed down to a sound bite, it can give the impression the vehicle was not on autopilot.
The driver told the state trooper he was on autopilot.[2] He was on a long, boring section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; that's the most likely situation to be on autopilot.
The NTSB will sort this out.
[1] http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Was-Tesla-invol... [2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-11/pennsylvan...
Re:Tesla confirms “Autopilot” crash in Montana
by sharmajai on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:27AM
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Well I was just a little ahead of my time: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/75369986163612876... . As it turns out the Autopilot was indeed turned off in the Pennsylvania case.