777

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.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

If you get killed by a robot, you can at least die knowing your death was the logical option and not a result of drunk driving, road rage, poor vehicle maintenance, panic, or any other of the dozens of ways humans are bad at decision-making.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It doesn't even need to be logical, just statistically reasonable. You're literally a statistic anytime you interact w/ any form of AI.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Or the result of cost cutting...

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

or a flipped comparison operator, or a "//TODO test code please remove"

this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
777 points (98.4% liked)

Technology

58774 readers
3166 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS