A Tesla driver crashed while in Autopilot after ignoring obvious signs to take control
It seems that now more than ever, Tesla owners are forgetting that their car's Autopilot and Adaptive Cruise Control functions do not turn their cars into fully-autonomous machines.
In a video that was posted to YouTube Wednesday, a Tesla Model S is shown navigating itself through mild traffic, until its front bumper meets the rear-end of a van stopped in its lane of traffic.
It appears that the Tesla's sensors were following the black wagon directly in front of it, but the sensors were unable to recognize that the wagon maneuvered around the stopped van. You can see the Model S slowing down as the wagon slows down, but then briefly speeding up once the wagon gets around the obstacle.
It's only after the wagon takes off and is no longer directly in the Tesla's sight that the car notices the stopped van in its path.
Also in that description, the uploader said "Yes, I could have reacted sooner, but when the car slows down correctly 1'000 times, you trust it to do it the next time to. My bad."
Yeah, buddy. Your bad.
Tesla's Autopilot technologies aren't perfect and they don't make the cars fully-autonomous. Why can't people remember that?
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