U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

Re:U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency ve... by pedrocr on Monday August 16, 2021 @09:49AM (#28198019)

I drive a Tesla and don't use the self-steering feature exactly because of this. What I do instead is enable the warnings from the same software like the ones you describe. That is actually a large gain. I'm already paying attention as I'm driving the car at all times and the software helps me catch things I haven't noticed for some reason. Those features seem really well done as the false positives are not too frequent and just a nuisance but the warnings are often valuable.

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Re:U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency ve... by oblio on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:25AM (#28198484)

Does it have/use emergency braking in case of danger, if you don't use self-driving?

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Re:U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency ve... by caf on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:30AM (#28198548)

Yes.

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Re:U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency ve... by jazzyjackson on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:30PM (#28201863)

Yes but they are phasing out radar in favor of vision-only. Model 3 and Y have been shipping without radar braking for the past few months.

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Re:U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency ve... by wilg on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:57PM (#28202158)

They still do emergency braking regardless of the sensor technology.

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Re:U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency ve... by nickik on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:54PM (#28203440)

The vision-only system has passed all required tests for certification and Tesla themselves consider it to be a much safer system now.

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