Gday Roger
“Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky,”
I would hazard a guess that the driver wasnt actually watching, as he thought the "automated" safety systems had him covered.
ie he probably had his thumb up his bum and his brain in neutral
Once you introduce these systems, people believe they are safe ( irrespective of the real limits in the automation ), so they need to be foolproof.
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and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer,
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"extremely rare" has to be defined more closely, as i'm not sure a truck swerving in front of a car is "extremely rare".
You should driving down the south eastern feeway in Melbourne in peak hours to see how common it is.
Just because the sun was out shouldnt result in a persons death.
Again, i have no probs with the process of developing self drive cars, just the cavalier release of it without proper testing for all the possibilities.
This appears to be a crash that the most basic of systems should have prevented.
Andrew