Idiot with car on autopilot watching a DVD. Could have been your family he smashed into.
Really, bit of a rash judgement. Were you there? The Tesla system means you still have to hold the steering wheel.
The accident was the car driving under the trailer from the side from the reports I’ve seen. In the UK we had to have guards put on lorry trailers to stop that as humans, supposedly paying attention, kept doing it.
The reports that the car systems didn’t “see” the lorry are odd, it’s a mix of sensors including ultra-sonic. There have been criticisms by some in the field that the Tesla system has blind spots unlike the similar Mercedes system.
Something has gone wrong, but the autopilot system has still logged more miles with less accidents than the meat bags who are supposedly in control of vehicles manage. Does that mean people aren’t ready for public roads yet?
Sadly I know the answer, I know I’d trust an autopilot system configured correctly to give me more room as a cyclist than the idiots on the road at the moment. 🙁