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US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions (apnews.com)

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The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

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[-] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago

The worst way to die would be getting hit by a shitbox Tesla. RIP.

[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean I'll take it over being burned alive or brutally eaten alive by a pack of ravenous wolves.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

I'll take the wolves

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[-] elgordino@fedia.io 24 points 4 days ago

If anyone was somehow still thinking RoboTaxi is ever going to be a thing. Then no, it’s not, because of reasons like this.

[-] testfactor@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

It doesn't have to not hit pedestrians. It just has to hit less pedestrians than the average human driver.

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 22 points 4 days ago

Exactly. The current rate is 80 deaths per day in the US alone. Even if we had self-driving cars proven to be 10 times safer than human drivers, we’d still see 8 news articles a day about people dying because of them. Taking this as 'proof' that they’re not safe is setting an impossible standard and effectively advocating for 30,000 yearly deaths, as if it’s somehow better to be killed by a human than by a robot.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

If you get killed by a robot, it simply lacks the human touch.

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[-] elgordino@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago

It needs to be way way better than ‘better than average’ if it’s ever going to be accepted by regulators and the public. Without better sensors I don’t believe it will ever make it. Waymo had the right idea here if you ask me.

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[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 days ago

The average human driver is tried and held accountable

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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I purchased FSD when it was 8k. What a crock of shit. When I sold the car, that was this only gave the car value after 110k miles and it was only $1500 at most.

[-] ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago

To be fair its marketed as full self driving, not full self no crashing

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[-] telllos@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

In five years guys!!

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I thought it was illegal to call it full self driving? So I thought Tesla had something new.
Apprently it's the moronic ASSISTED full self driving the article is about. So nothing new.
Tesla does not have a legal full self driving system, so why do articles keep pushing the false narrative, even after it's deemed illegal?

[-] mars296@fedia.io 16 points 4 days ago

Assisted full self driving is an oxymoron.

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