9 thoughts on “Shouldn’t That Be a “Tesla Passenger”?”
"What we know is that the vehicle was on a divided highway with Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied."
People are determined to find reasons why a disruptive technology is bad, just as they were in the early days of the Internet.
Well that sucks. Sounds like it'd be hard for a person to catch that as well if they weren't alert. Was the tractor trailer not supposed to be crossing?
"What we know is that the vehicle was on a divided highway with Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied."
People are determined to find reasons why a disruptive technology is bad, just as they were in the early days of the Internet.
Of course they were right about the Internet.
Well that sucks. Sounds like it'd be hard for a person to catch that as well if they weren't alert. Was the tractor trailer not supposed to be crossing?
Here's Tesla's blog [post.]
maybe it was full of chickens…
Individual mass transit of the [future]:
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…for the discriminating palette?
Is he on Skid Row?
Now combine the obvious lack of brakes with, say, San Francisco.
So, |this article| said this was due to happen a couple of weeks ago. Pretty close.