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A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was allegedly in self-driving mode crashed into a Texas house Friday night, killing a woman who was inside the home, investigators said.
Michael Butler was traveling in his Tesla Model 3 around 8 p.m. local time in Katy, Texas, and was operating the vehicle "with an automated driving assistance system," the Harris County Sheriff's office said in a statement.
Butler allegedly failed to drive in a single lane, left the roadway and struck the residence, according to the sheriff's office.
"Butler's Tesla entered through the brick residence, at a high rate of speed, and struck M. Avila who was inside the residence," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/tesla-allegedly-autopilot-mode-crashes-173809621.html
sinkingfeeling
(58,219 posts)Melon
(1,860 posts)Its very easy to tell once they download the computer information as all driving inputs are captured. It seems premature to publish the story as automated when it can be easily proven within days by pulling the data. My tesla would absolutely jerk back into the lane if it even got close to the lane paint.
uncle ray
(3,376 posts)i have no doubt that the autopilot handed control back to the human drive many milliseconds before the crash.
flvegan
(66,643 posts)Couldn't figure out that it had left the road?
Utter shitbox if true, and Tesla's "autopilot" or whatever the fuck they're calling it these days (and please spare me, Stans) should be cause enough to permanently park these things until shitbag Musk's "car company" can fix it (which it won't, because why should it) or disable it.