[SystemSafety] NHTSA on the Tesla crash

[Martyn Thomas]

All true, but if you sell it as an autopilot ...

Seven seconds isn't long to send a text, for example. Try it.

Martyn


On 20/01/2017 11:44, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> The NHTSA has issued its report on the May 2016 crash in Florida, in which a Tesla on "Autopilot"
> went under a truck crossing the road, and the driver was killed.
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> NHTSA says that the driver had some seven seconds to take action, and took none. Seven seconds is a
> very long time when driving. The Autopilot was set to 74mph, about 108 fps. Seven seconds is 760 ft
> (some rounding error), which is 232m. That's a real long way in which nothing happened.
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> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/20/tesla-model-s-cleared-auto-safety-regulator-after-fatal-autopilot-crash
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