Let’s write this right... A trucker at an uncontrolled intersection missed that there was an oncoming car with its daytime headlights on, and turned in front of it. Neither the Tesla driver nor the Tesla braked before crashing into the trailer, shearing off the top of the car. The car came to rest when it impacted with a telephone pole further down the road.
The trucker who missed the oncoming traffic before he blocked the road could still somehow identify the sounds of a Harry Pottery movie over the sounds of a cat impacting the trailer and most of the car continuing under the trailer and out the other side.
The only significant change from the age old story of a negligent trucker who blocked traffic with his rig is that the Tesla cameras could not detect the trailer across the lanes of traffic which it falsely identified as an unimportant horizon.
My question is didn’t the systems recognize the cab turning across the path before interpreting the white trailer as empty space and apply the brakes and alerting the driver?
Apparently not. When I first heard of these systems I predicted some catastrophic failures. This is the first one I've heard about.