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1:19 · 3.7M views · Jun 1, 2020
Dashcam-style footage of a Tesla Model 3 crashing into an overturned truck on a highway in Taiwan during the morning commute.
HN cites it as an example of Autopilot failures in discussions about the limits of Tesla's driver assistance and self-driving.
4 comments from Hacker News
People die all the time, there are even higher profile cases like the Apple Engineer who slammed in the barriers at full speed: [LINK] There are some spectacular failures that are very scary because the car does something that a person would never do, unless unconscious, like this one: this video You don't hear much about it probably because Tesla fanboys are plenty and rabid, so people avoid talking about it online. The defence is usually stats about human drivers crashing more often and it makes sense until you dive deeper into the numbers because these stats are usually oranges v.s. Apples. It feels like they have some playbook with statistics to slap when someone says something negative. If that doesn't cut, they say that the victim should have followed the manual that says "your attention should always be on the road" then proceed posting a video about how thanks to the latest update they can sleep drive to work and attach a banana to the driving wheel to disable the attention safeguards. If someone asks how is this an autopilot, there are usually two ways to handle it: 1) Autopilot is just a brand name, the self driving software is in beta, so the victim should pay attention all the times. 2) Autopilot is like on the planes, so only fools think that it is autonomous, therefore it was working as intended but they should have been using it like an airline autopilot. Crash due to user error. I'm actually a fan of Musk and Tesla but I feel like the community engagement is very
this video There are no brake lights on the Model 3. None at all. Based on this "reverse video", my conclusion is that the M3 doesn't even brake. ------- Somewhat worrying is the pedestrian (the truck driver?) who jumps back to get out of the way of the M3. Not only did the M3 miss the truck, but the M3 didn't seem to see the pedestrian either.
I don't know - I must have seen five or so headlines in the papers but don't really follow the stuff. Here's one this video
Here is your "but this time it is fine" Autopilot attempting to murder yet another driver just 9 months ago: this video