Tesla Model S Autopilot Led To a Fatal Accident

Jul 21
08:34

2016

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On the 7th of May,Joshua Brown, a man who lost his life on the road when cameras on his Tesla Model S failed to detect a tractor trailer and striked it. The focus is that the car with built-in Car DVD Player and Android Car Stereo was on an autopilot driving mode at the moment when the accident occurred.

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The entire story would be a simple car accident story,Tesla Model S Autopilot Led To a Fatal Accident Articles only if the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) didn’t get involved. What are they trying to do is to determine, whether or not the self driving car is safe.

 

The driver was a well known Tesla enthusiast, and a friend of the company, as they stated in the official notice. He used to upload videos of his Tesla and even some videos where he showed how Tesla autonomous driving by Android Car GPS and saved his life.

 

There are no actual details about the accident, except the information that we could get from the Tesla Motors. They said that the incident happened on the divided highway with autopilot engaged. The tractor trailer drove across the highway 90 degrees to the model S. In that moment, there is no signal show on the Car DVD Player,neither the sensors nor the driver reacted appropriately and everything resulted in the fatal outcome. The car ran under the trailer and got its windshield and roof completely shared off.

 

This is not the first time that Tesla Model S had trouble seeing high trailers. Earlier this year, a driver reported that his Tesla Model S didn’t stop in front of the tractor trailer when it was summoned with the autonomous parking feature. We have no doubt that Tesla Motors engineers will find some kind of solution, with wider range sensors and better cameras in car DVD but we need to keep in mind that this is still the beta testing for that system. Here is the blog post about the accident on the official Tesla website.