The Third Tesla Autopilot Crash Has Just Been Reported
A third crash in less than a fortnight is being blamed on Tesla’s Autopilot system.
The latest smash, which occurred in the USA like the others, involved the driver of a Model X who claims the system let the car leave the road and smash into a wooden guard rail, reportedly doing heavy damage to the right hand side of the car.
However, the driver has admitted that he was using the system on a road without markings, which Tesla itself says the Autopilot system isn’t designed to deal with. It’s possible that the system turned itself off and that the driver simply wasn’t paying enough attention to take charge before it all went wrong.
A series of low-res photographs were uploaded to the Tesla Motors Club forum, showing heavy damage including a wheel apparently ripped away from the car.
This incident in Montana comes in the wake of the death of a Model S driver who was killed in Florida when neither he nor his car saw a truck that was turning across their path. A second Autopilot accident involved a roll-over crash in Pennsylvania, thankfully without injury.
Tesla still insists that Autopilot is in its Beta testing stage and won’t be ready to be finalised until the system collectively covers at least a billion miles.
The company is yet to release a statement following the latest accident.
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Tesla has recently been called out for transferring the blame on to Nintendo saying “It was not our auto pilot that failed, the driver was playing Pokemon Go.” No further comments have been released from the manufacturing company.
The autopilot issue is not with the car, but with the owners who refuse to pay attention because there car is in autopilot. Thats just natural selection right there.
blame the humans
Auto-pilot kicked in yo….
The driver should’ve made a CarThrottle account and subscribe to CarThrottle
If the autopilot turned off it would have made sometype of noise to alert the driver to take back bac
Autopilot IS NOT autonomous driving. It’s more like “cruise control plus”. You still have to pay attention to the road. The number of Autopilot crashes is still significantly lower than the average.
I hate the idea of an autopilot mode. Dont get a car if you are not prepared to drive it. if you are going to drive it then why would you need an autopilot mode? Stupid idea imo
People are just idiots…
Autopilot is there for keeping you from having to suffer through the long highway trawls, not awkward switchbacks and the like. I don’t know why people assume it’s safe to let it do its thing entirely.
People make mistakes- but if you want to have it really screwed up, have a computer do it.