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Driver killed in crash while using Tesla’s ‘autopilot’ feature
POSTED AT 1:21 PM ON JULY 1, 2016 BY JOHN SEXTON
A former Navy SEAL named Joshua Brown was killed when his self-driving Tesla Model S drove under a tractor-trailer, sheering the roof off his car. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, this is the first fatal crash involving a self-driving vehicle.
Tesla published a statement about the crash on its website which describes the circumstances of the crash. It reads in part:
We learned yesterday evening that NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Model S. This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles…
Following our standard practice, Tesla informed NHTSA about the incident immediately after it occurred. What we know is that the vehicle was on a divided highway with Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S.
Driver killed in crash while using Tesla’s ‘autopilot’ feature - Hot Air
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Driver killed in crash while using Tesla’s ‘autopilot’ feature
POSTED AT 1:21 PM ON JULY 1, 2016 BY JOHN SEXTON
A former Navy SEAL named Joshua Brown was killed when his self-driving Tesla Model S drove under a tractor-trailer, sheering the roof off his car. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, this is the first fatal crash involving a self-driving vehicle.
Tesla published a statement about the crash on its website which describes the circumstances of the crash. It reads in part:
We learned yesterday evening that NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Model S. This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles…
Following our standard practice, Tesla informed NHTSA about the incident immediately after it occurred. What we know is that the vehicle was on a divided highway with Autopilot engaged when a tractor trailer drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S. Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S.
Driver killed in crash while using Tesla’s ‘autopilot’ feature - Hot Air
"GTP"
