Tesla Driver Avoids Ticket For Driving With His Feet Out Of The Window
Tesla’s Autopilot system is a pretty impressive piece of technology, but it doesn’t have fully autonomous capability. That hasn’t stopped some Tesla drivers from attempting some pretty reckless stunts, though.
A video clip shows Grammy-nominated music producer Joseph Mourad, also known as DJ Klypso, was pulled over and ticketed by a California Highway Patrol officer for driving with his feet sticking out of the driver’s side window. DJ Klypso told celebrity gossip site The Blast that the ticket was thrown out because he claimed that the Autopilot in his Tesla Model S had control of the vehicle when he was pulled over.
However, the Autopilot defense had nothing to do with the dismissal of Mr. Mourad’s citation. According to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County court, the charges were dropped because the officer who issued the ticket did not show up to the appeal hearing.
There’s a reason why you still have to pay attention while using Autopilot. Last year, the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) cited the limitations of Autopilot as a major factor in a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S in 2016.
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No matter how advance you make technology, the stupidity of people will still prevail…
Stupid people shouldn’t be driving, or auto-piloting
tbh, they should be making driving tests harder, not making it easier cause well what’s more safer, a good driver, or an idiot using autopilot
This is why Tesla NEEDS to rename their Autopilot! It is NOT a true autopilot. It may be highly capable, but in the eyes of the law, you must pay as much attention as you would if you had regular lane assists, and rightly so. So many stupid people think it’s full autonomy because of this name.
That’s true, you should never underestimate human stupidity
Ret*rd level 9000
You can make something idiot proof, but the universe will just make a better idiot.
That is why Cadillac has the naming of these time of systems nailed down, “Super-Cruise” since really that more accurately stats what it is, not an auto-pilot system like aircraft (which the pilot still has to be vigilante while using) but a supplement to a cruise control system.
In the 90s a fully autonomous autopilot was used once, that flight ended up on the side of a mountain
The lesson here: if you can, contest the ticket if you believe you have a case. Sometimes your officer won’t even show up.