NTSB Says Autopilot Was Engaged As Owner Dined On A Bagel And Coffee When It Crashed Into Parked Fire Truck

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday that a Tesla Model S was in Autopilot mode when it struck a fire truck in Culver City, California, one of a series of crashes the board is investigating involving Tesla’s driver assistance system.+

The 2014 Model S Autopilot system was engaged continuously for the final 13 minutes 48 seconds of the trip before the vehicle struck a fire truck parked on Interstate-405 in January 2018, the NTSB safety board said in documents posted on Tuesday.
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Agent009 - 9/3/2019 2:31:57 PM

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Funny how quickly they blame Autopilot when the driver was not attentive as well.

Truthy - 9/3/2019 4:08:50 PM

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Agent009, isn't the point of autopilot is for the car to drive? A fire truck is a hard thing to miss - (seeing I mean, apparently not hard to miss for a Tesla on Autopilot).
Didn't Elon the Great claim there would be 1.0 million driverless "robotaxis" by 2020? God help us.

Agent009 - 9/3/2019 4:32:25 PM

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Truthy,

Only Level 5 autonomous systems can do that. No one is near that yet level of sophistication at this time. So the term Autopilot can be misleading.

Truthy - 9/3/2019 8:37:08 PM

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Agent009, t was Elon that said Tesla would have one million robotaxis on the road by 2020. That would indicate level 5 autonomy since there would be no driver in the car. This accident leads me to believe Tesla is not quite ready for this.

Truthy - 9/4/2019 8:51:36 AM

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FAQMD, you are absolutely right. Insurance rates on Teslas were heading up for a number of reasons. This was Elon's reaction.

PUGPROUD - 9/3/2019 3:07:26 PM

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And the hits keep on coming!

Truthy - 9/3/2019 4:09:21 PM

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Cannot top this comment. Well done, sir.

GeorgeD - 9/3/2019 3:33:00 PM

+11 Boost

Tesla should be forced to not call their system "AutoPilot"

Agent009 - 9/3/2019 4:33:01 PM

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Bingo! You win the prize!

wilfred - 9/3/2019 5:22:20 PM

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CoPilot ?

MDarringer - 9/3/2019 6:42:40 PM

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People this stupid: “'I was having a coffee and a bagel. And all I remember, that truck, and then I just saw the boom in my face and that was it'” need to die.

valhallakey - 9/4/2019 12:19:25 AM

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There used to be an award for these types of idiots, not sure if it still exists... Darwin Award I believe it was called.

TomM - 9/4/2019 1:46:56 AM

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The fact is - this system is NOT what people think it is
According to the Manual - you need to keep your hands on the wheel

ANd there should be sensors on the wheel that detect the hands of the driver - and some type of reminder that they need to be there as well.

SanJoseDriver - 9/4/2019 2:13:32 AM

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You all act like this crash was from yesterday. This was from January 2018, some ~30 Autopilot releases ago. If you think Autopilot drives today the same as it did over 18 months ago, then you don't understand how software works.

u080570 - 9/4/2019 6:43:09 AM

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Don't try to add any facts to the anti-Tesla group on here...

They are the same people that blame the person and not the gun after mass shootings, but then blame the Tesla, and not the person, after a crash....hard to deal with their hypocrisy

netegrity - 9/7/2019 10:53:20 PM

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Stupid driver