>> The safety agency informed Tesla weeks ago that it was looking into the spate of crashes in which Tesla vehicles operating on Autopilot failed to detect stopped emergency vehicles with flashing lights. The regulator originally said it was looking into 11 such crashes. A 12th occurred on Saturday, when a Model 3 hit a police cruiser that had stopped behind a car that had broken down on an interstate in Orlando, Fla.

> 12 crashes into vehicles with flashing lights on them doesn't sound like great success from Autopilot, gonna be honest.

It's really surprising what people will put up with. IIRC, recently "autopilot" had some regressions in the situations it could handle, and Elon Musk tweeted something to the effect of "Yeah, this version sucks since we're retraining all our NNs."

Like how did something that half-baked ever make it to production in a safety critical system?