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New Tesla crash while on AutoPilot suggests 3rd party oversight needed

AutoPilot. A new Tesla crash with AutoPilot engaged has headlines screaming coast to coast and perhaps further. Video shows the vehicle racing down a side street and slamming into a brick home. Sadly, a resident in the home was killed. Data is fed to Tesla in real time and the company made a rare acknowledgement …

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“Self” self driving

Self driving. Back only a week or so, I did a piece discussing the “wonder” that Tesla AutoPilot users attribute on X to the software, that it saved their lives here or saved a pedestrian there etc. Each of these comments would be accompanied by video proof. Each time it felt as though each of …

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Tesla Autopilot and safety ratings

Tesla Autopilot. I follow Tesla on X and its striking how often they repost reports of accidents where the vehicle’s occupants were not injured or not severely injured because of how safe the cars are. And then there are the videos from drivers who comment that Autopilot prevented this accident or that accident. This is …

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Where does liability lie in a self-driving accident?

Self-driving accident Several days ago, InsideEVs mused over a $240+ million verdict against Tesla rendered by a jury in Florida and what it would mean to the automotive industry. Who is liable in a self-driving accident? Tesla, which intends to appeal the verdict, continues on the one hand to call its Advanced Driver Assist System …

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To Autopilot or Not to Autopilot, that Is the Question

Autopilot Risks A recent accident involving a Tesla Model S with its Autopilot function engaged cost the life of the car’s driver. Since then, there have been calls to disable the function or as least rename it. We have cautioned many times in these posts about the advance of technology in automobiles. The advances are …

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Moronic Video Shows Autopiloted Tesla with No Driver

Moron at the Wheel Just a few weeks ago (2015), we castigated Mercedes marketers for posting a video ad showing one of their vehicles being driven autonomously with the driver in the back seat working. What really got to us was that the ad featured a baby in the driver’s seat, and facing forward! Our …

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