New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times

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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times
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New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times::Six officers who were injured in the crash are suing Tesla despite the fact that the driver was allegedly impaired

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Driver is definitely the one ultimately at fault here, but how is it that Tesla doesn’t perform an emergency stop in this situation - but just barrels into an obstacle?

Even my relatively ‘dumb’ car with adaptive cruise control handles this type of situation better than Tesla?!

Your relatively 'dumb' car probably doesn't try to gauge distance exclusively by interpreting visual data from cameras.

Wait, the Model X doesn’t have RADAR/LIDAR to supplement the cameras?

Nope. For whatever reason, Musk decided to just use cameras

"Whatever reason" is obviously just trying to cut corners and improve the bottom line with no regard for the consequences.

A few years ago, they were experimenting with LIDAR (most other car makers had it already then).

Then they abandoned it, even though everyone in the world thought that they need it so badly.

Now we see one of the results.

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I believe this is caused by the fog combined with flashing lights and upward/curved road. The Tesla autopilot system is super impressive in almost all situations but you can clearly see the limits in extreme situations. Here, the drunk driver is definitely at fault, I don't understand why they'd sue Tesla.

I don't understand why they'd sue Tesla.

Money. Tesla has much more money than the drunk.

Even my relatively ‘dumb’ car [...] handles [...] better than Tesla?!

Not going to be the last time when you experience that :-)

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