Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train.
Nighttime dashcam footage from earlier this month in Ohio captured the harrowing scene: Doty’s Tesla rapidly approaching a train with no apparent deceleration. He insisted his Tesla was in Full Self-Driving mode when it barreled towards the train crossing without slowing down.
What new concerns? All I see are preexisting concerns.
You’d think the driver would have start hitting the brakes seeing how fast it was going towards the gates
I was ready to write shit on Tesla then I saw the video. The asshole was driving at that speed in the fog??? And let some alpha proof of concept software that relies only on cameras to let drive in the fog???
If the human eye doesn’t see the train crossing, how a camera can see it?
Although a bit of fault to Tesla, because the system should have known from the maps that over there was a train crossing and should have slowed down anyway
And let some alpha proof of concept software that relies only on cameras
That “alpha proof of concept software” is marketed as “full self-driving”. If it doesn’t mean what it says it means, the company producing it should be fully liable for any crashes caused as a result of its use.
Full Self-Driving. Not “kinda sometimes in perfect conditions”. Full.
True, it should also refuse to activate in low visibility situation
If the human eye doesn’t see the train crossing, how a camera can see it?
If Elon Musk wasn’t so anti-lidar then that would be the answer, but here we are.
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looks like the camera has seen those blinky lights tho, at least i did from the footage. so maybe the driver could have acted quite a bit sooner too. a shame lidar was too good for tesla tho
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Driver decides to use Automatic Cruise Control in Foggy Conditions, basically Blames car and manufacturer
This picture does not look like what happens to a car when it is hit by a train
That might explain why the title says “nearly”
Because it didn’t get hit by a train. Driver steer the car away from the passing train and hit a stop light.
“It wasn’t in self driving mode at the time of the accident.”
- Tesla legal team, probably
Probably technically true. He had to steer it away from the train.
Can’t view, got a link?
It’s what happens when the driver swerves into the crossing arm pole to not hit the train in front of it.
I don’t get it. There is a new technology, self-driving electric vehicles, it’s evolving and it’s not perfect (yet). You don’t have to buy this technology, you don’t have to engage in any way, just look at something else and let it mature. Yet I get headline after headline celebrating small failures. This is like an anti-fandom. Why?!
you don’t have to engage in any way
As a cyclist, I am forced to engage with Tesla’s self driving mode, cause I share the road with them and it sucks at dealing with cyclists.
Only from the POV of the cyclists, not from the POV of Tesla
Every other user on the road is forced to engage with it, including vulnerable users like cyclists and pedestrians. They didn’t agree to it. They weren’t asked if they’re okay with it.
And Tesla in particular, more than other self-driving ventures, has been incredibly reckless in what features they roll out and how easy they make it for their drivers to be unsafe while using it.
And to really get it you have to have been a vulnerable commuter (cyclist etc) in an encounter with a car where they’ve clearly just not seen you and will kill you if you’re not constantly on the look out for such things.
Despite being well informed about such things I was still shocked my “first time” as I watched a car just turn into me like I wasn’t there while the driver was looking elsewhere.
cars were already a problem. Weaponising them with tech hype is toxic.
@Teppichbrand @rosschie just like radium. A technology those who don’t understand technology thinks is ready but isn’t. So yes let’s just let these people use us as Guinea pigs. People will die. Do you find people dying to let Elon get a few more bucks an ok thing? Personally as someone who has built technology my whole life I’d like it fully baked before it’s put around peoples children.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate cars. But people are already dying from them, because humans make mistakes and drive reclesly. Don’t you think traffic with 100% self-driving cars would be safer because AI is more careful? New technology has got to start start somewhere. Feels a little “not in my backyard” to me. Yes cyclists are unsafe, but not because of Teslas self-driving EVs.
@Teppichbrand @rosschie sorry but I just noticed ur a zero follower following zero people account and this is your first post. This feels suspicious
Are you experiencing federation problems? Whatever criticism teppichbrand may deserve for their bad opinions, this is far from their first post. The first page of 20 comments takes them back 2 weeks, making them a fairly moderate user of Lemmy.
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