All Too Familiar? Model 3 Crashes Into Patrol Car, Driver Blames Autopilot

All Too Familiar? Model 3 Crashes Into Patrol Car, Driver Blames Autopilot
Another day, another Tesla crash caused by someone supposedly misusing Autopilot. Connecticut State Police took to Facebook to report that a Model 3 rear-ended one of its highway patrol cars while using the semi-autonomous driving system. The driver claimed he was checking on his dog in the back seat before the collision occurred.

The accident took place early Saturday morning when the Tesla with Connecticut plates reading "MODEL3" was traveling northbound on Interstate 95. The electric vehicle struck a CSP Ford Taurus Police Interceptor in the city of Norwalk, where an officer was tending to a broken-down vehicle in the left-center lane of the interstate with the lights activated and flares placed before the scene.


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Vette71Vette71 - 12/9/2019 2:14:07 PM
+6 Boost
Tesla Autopilot seems to have a "natural attraction" to emergency vehicle flashing lights. Kinky!


PUGPROUDPUGPROUD - 12/9/2019 2:54:07 PM
+7 Boost
Autopilot...right! "Deception may give us what we want for the present but will take it away in the end."


TruthyTruthy - 12/9/2019 5:07:51 PM
+7 Boost
Cue up SanJose telling us Tesla is far ahead of everyone else on autopilot technology.
I have not read about any Mercedes nor Cadillacs ramming emergency on a routine basis.


MDarringerMDarringer - 12/9/2019 8:59:09 PM
+6 Boost
When we broke for lunch today, bossman's Tesla S would not function, so we had to go in the Charger. LOL


skytopskytop - 12/9/2019 7:15:29 PM
+5 Boost
Enjoy your Tesla deathmobile.


jeffgalljeffgall - 12/9/2019 7:16:02 PM
+6 Boost
This is my favorite quote

"While Troopers were waiting for a tow truck for the disabled vehicle, a 2018 Tesla Model 3, bearing CT Reg. MODEL3, traveling northbound struck the rear of one cruiser and then continued north striking the disabled motor vehicle.

The operator of the Tesla continued to slowly travel northbound before being stopped several hundred feet ahead by the second Trooper on scene."

The car did not even recognize it hit the first car.


supermotosupermoto - 12/10/2019 10:24:10 AM
+4 Boost
This is why camera-based systems can't be relied on. LIDAR would have made all the difference.


Vette71Vette71 - 12/10/2019 10:31:10 AM
+3 Boost
It's looking more and more that Tesla skipping LIDAR may be a fatal flaw. Is Elon capable of admitting he was wrong on that one ?


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