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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by shiftpgdn on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:57PM (#28791965)
It always bugs me they trot out the Mountain View crash as an example where a Model X struck an unmarked and unprotected jersey barrier end in what visually looks like a traffic lane. Further that multiple human drivers had hit the divider in the same spot and a near fatal accident occurred literally the next day into the same barrier.

If I put a brick wall on the freeway and paint it to look like a tunnel ala wil-e-coyote am I responsible for building the wall or is the driver responsible for hitting it?

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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by ReGenGen on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:02PM (#28793780)
If it fools .1% of human drivers and 50% of automated Tesla's I'd say is Tesla's fault.
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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by erulabs on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:13PM (#28800912)
It’s Mountain View California - fully 50% of the cars on the roads are Teslas
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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by UncleEntity on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:01PM (#28794383)
The Mountain View crash where the driver reported that specific location to Tesla on multiple occasions and still let the robocar drive full speed into the jersey barrier on autopilot?
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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by blitzar on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:57AM (#28796785)
It sounds a bit like the 3 foot wide concrete pillar that came out of nowhere and scratched half way down the passenger side of the car recently.
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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by RattleyCooper on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:56PM (#28802100)
You can blame the driver but if tesla calls their systems "auto-pilot" or "full self-driving" mode then they're creating expectations in people's minds that they aren't going to be kamikaze'd into a concrete wall... When they create these expectations and then people die, something needs to change.
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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by jjeaff on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:27PM (#28806174)
Even if they didn't call it that, anything that allows drivers to redirect their attention seems dangerous to me. Because it is always going to be hard for a disengaged driver to regain control and evade an accident in the last second.
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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by willcipriano on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:30PM (#28792920)
Is this the one you are talking about?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/30/tesla-autopilot-was-o...

I'd blame a human driver for hitting it in this case.

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Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? by fwip on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:05PM (#28793277)
Were any of the person-driven accidents fatal, do you know?
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