NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
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Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#2The report itself - worth of reading
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#3“[Driver’s] hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.”
This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. What they said here was, for all intents and purposes, a flat out lie.
Clearly something went wrong here, but they lept to blaming everyone else instead of working to find the flaw.
Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#4“[Driver’s] hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.” This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. What they said here was, for all intents and purposes, a flat out lie. Clearly…
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Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#5“[Driver’s] hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.” This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. What they said here was, for all intents and purposes, a flat out lie. Clearly…
Also, „hands were not detected“ does not mean that they really weren‘t on the wheel. Maybe someone who drives a Tesla can comment on how reliable the hand detection is.
Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#6“[Driver’s] hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.” This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. What they said here was, for all intents and purposes, a flat out lie. Clearly…
If I were rapidly approaching a barrier at full speed on a highway, I might put my hands up and guard my face before the crash.
Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#7“[Driver’s] hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.” This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. What they said here was, for all intents and purposes, a flat out lie. Clearly…
Add to that, the last bullet point from page 2 of the official preliminary report[1]:
At 3 seconds prior to the crash and up to the time of impact with the crash attenuator,
the Tesla’s speed increased from 62 to 70.8 mph, with no precrash braking or evasive
steering movement detected.
[1]: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/why-selling-full-self-d...
Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#8Dear Elon, want to start a website that rates how fake-newsy government-produced accident reports are? /S
"FDA said my farm is producing salmonella-infected chicken. Downvote their report on this URL!"
Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#9“[Driver’s] hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than 15 minutes before the crash.” This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. What they said here was, for all intents and purposes, a flat out lie. Clearly…
Also, „hands were not detected“ does not mean that they really weren‘t on the wheel. Maybe someone who drives a Tesla can comment on how reliable the hand detection is.
No idea about tesla, but how do you screw up hand detenction?
Re: NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
#10The report itself - worth of reading https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
No surprise there about it steering into the barrier or Tesla not-quite-lying about him getting warnings, but I'm surprised that he apparently wasn't dead on impact but survived all the way to the hospital?
So even a three-car pileup with the Tesla steering straight into a barrier at 71MPH & accelerating, with the car catching on fire & being reduced to a husk, still isn't enough to kill a driver immediately. In a way, you could interpret that as demonstrating how safe Teslas are (at least, without Autopilot).