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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i’d love to see an article written for every single regular car crash that happens, oh yea that would be like a thousand an hour.
If people are to lazy to drive a car then dont make one that drives for them
If every single Tesla crash is news, then they aren’t doing so bad, imagine you have to write an article on every Ford Focus crash
“…which occurred in the USA like the others…” are we really surprised here at all? He was even driving it on a road he wasn’t supposed to use the autopilot on yet supposedly it’s the cars fault. Is this the direction the human race is going? If I point a gun at my face and pull the trigger it isn’t the guns fault.
I didn’t hear about the second crash
At this point in time, autonomous vehicles don’t sound like they will be taking over the roads anytime soon and that’s a good thing!
Weren’t all the cars per installed with the hardware before autopilot was downloaded? I won’t claim to know to be honest because I’m not sure. Anyway if people don’t that’s their problem, don’t blame the Germans for caring for the safety of you and your family, they’re still maintaining their responsibilty for you. If you crash in a Tesla using autopilot they will find every reason to say it was your fault. A lot of people seem to use the systems from rivalling manufacturers anyway so I don’t see where you got that from lol
Tesla will probably put some kind of message in the next soft update, at least in the sue-happy US: “If you use Tesla’s autopilot, We are not responsible if you you crash using the Autopilot yadda yadda.”
oh god how much is this going to be blamed on inshurance in the next years