Our Model Y is a wonder. The human factor needs to be determiined.
I think he has a case. In all of recorded history, something like this has never happened with any other brand of automobile.
Haven’t read the entirety of the article yet, but the question of what the driver may or may not have consumed, ingested, injected or imbibed before driving comes to mind.
“The driver of the Tesla, Romeo Lagman Yalung, had activated the vehicle’s autopilot feature, which he trusted based on Tesla’s claims that the software was “safer than a human driver.”
It makes little differences how many advanced safety features that a new car has... The “autopilot feature” was obviously not quite ready for prime time.
“Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment. While these features are designed to become more capable over time, the currently enabled features do not make the vehicle autonomous.”
Agree. Discovery will be VERY interesting. Especially who is representing the plaintiff and if cell phone records show that SOMEBODY wasn’t “safe driving” the vehicle.
“ The car was equipped with advanced safety features, including forward collision warning, lane departure avoidance, and emergency lane departure, which the suit claims should have prevented the vehicle from leaving its lane and crashing.”
The suit fails to include a brake pedal, which, when properly applied could prevent a lane departure and crash.
EC
On the accident, which happened at 11:55 PM.
Struck a sign, then a guardrail, then a bridge support.
Did the guardrail fail?
How fast was the driver going?
Was the emergency lane departure turned on, or left turned off?