Reply to post: Re: Circumvention by obfuscation

You, robo-car maker, any serious accidents, I want to know about them, stat – US watchdog

John Robson Silver badge

Re: Circumvention by obfuscation

Looking further I still don't see anything that suggests any other interpretation...

"One month of Tesla Carlog data was reviewed for the time when the driver was making his morning trip to work. Although GPS information was not available in the Carlog data, the NTSB―using information about the driver’s daily patterns and routes―identified two similar incidents that occurred on March 19,

2018, and on February 27, 2018. The data showed that during both incidents, Autosteer induced a steering action to the left, which appeared to be in the vicinity of the gore. The Autosteer action was followed within 2 seconds by a driver-induced steering correction to the right, overriding Autopilot functionality. During these two previous incidents, the driver’s hands were detected on the steering wheel."

So the driver knew that AP struggled at that location.

Furthermore:

"Crash and maintenance records show that the attenuator at the crash location was damaged or repaired more frequently than any other left-exit crash attenuator in Caltrans District 4―it had more than double the repairs of any other location. Traffic collision data show that in the 3 years before the fatal March 23, 2018, crash, the attenuator was struck at least five times, including one collision that resulted in fatal injuries.

The crash attenuator at this location was struck again on May 20, 2018, about 2 months after the crash involving the Tesla."

That suggests that many human drivers crash at this location - so we should ban all human drivers right?

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