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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Gday Roger
As i qualified, it wasn't a true self driving "the sensor would have seen clean air" sort of implies that the system cant cope with "all" real world situations yet, as there really was a truck there.
Andrew
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It was a Tesla and it was in "Autopilot" mode I"m guessing the sensor will be upgraded shortly.
"Exactly how Autopilot failed Brown in the fatal accident isn’t entirely clear. Indications are that Brown didn’t brake the Model S. The driver of the truck told local media he believed that Brown was watching video at the time of the crash. And in its blog post, Tesla stated clearly that Autopilot was engaged in the Model S when the accident occurred.
“Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky,” Tesla said in its blog post, “so the brake was not applied. “The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S.”