[dragnet2]

[a fool in paradise]

Officer may still retire with disability...

[dragnet2]

In fact, it totaled the police vehicle.☺ Glad this wasn't a school bus stop with 20 kids standing around.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Was the Black Lives Manner plugin enabled in the software?

[goldstategop]

Software bug.

Needs more testing...

[PAR35]

Let’s get the talking points straight. The Tesla autopilot functioned as designed. The Police car just appeared in front of the Tesla without warning. It wasn’t even in a marked crosswalk. It’s a dark stretch of road at night. (Now, now, don’t be a climate change denier and interject irrelevant facts about it being broad daylight). And, finally, it’s the police department’s fault for painting the car white so it would blend in with the sidewalk/clouds/snow. (And we all know that white police cars are racist).

Did I miss any?

[Gay State Conservative]

I had a car a few years ago that had some kind of advanced cruise control.Basically it was claimed that you could set the speed and the car would remain at that speed and would automatically slow down and even stop completely if traffic required and,once conditions allowed,it would resume the pre-set speed.

I tried it once or twice and didn't like it at all.It was herky-jerkey and more than a bit scary.And the car in question was a well respected make...it wasn't some kind of Kia or Mitsubishi.

I doubt that I'll ever trust any kind of automatic driving.

[Moonman62]

Driver error. Autopilot isn’t designed to be used on a road like that.

[hadaclueonce]

One more free billion from the taxpayers and Saint Elon will get it right.

[lizma2]

All self-driving cars should be Smart Cars or smaller

[sipow]

The autopilot technology is amazing and some of it may even be better than a good deal of human drivers.

That said, it is going to have to be (provably) way better than human drivers before it will be successful. And it will have to work in any condition - or at the very least determine when it is unable to continue and safely stop and park the car.

If it requires the driver to stay alert, keep their hands on the wheel, and pay attention the whole time, then it is really almost useless. The idea that someone can sit there and keep paying attention while not having to do anything for extended periods of time is ridiculous. It is much harder to sit there and pay attention when you aren’t having to actually control the car than when you are.

Until it is almost flawless (at least provably better than a human) the accident lawyers will ensure that it is not successful in practice.

[Reno89519]

Self-driving cars, what could go wrong?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Arrest that car and throw it into a cell with a truck named Bubba.

[Nifster]

Hitting a police car never ends well....auto pilot or no

[BobL]

Great, now they have BLM writing their software.

There are some thing where you DO NOT use racial quotas, regardless of whether it means EEOC or the Rev. Jesse Jackson suing you.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Officer, it wasn’t my fault! Honest, it was on Tesla Autopilot. I’d had a few drinks, so I didn’t want to drive myself. Talk to Elon.”

[CivilWarBrewing]

Oh c'mon, Elon Musk.. You can make a near perfect reverse landing of a massive first stage booster rocket on a tiny drone ship out in the middle of the ocean but you can't make a car negotiate light traffic?

The other day on the freeway, a Tesla approached from behind in heavy traffic at a high rate of speed, weaving in and out of traffic without slowing down.. Was this IDIOT in auto pilot going on a suicide mission?

[mylife]

Oh Noes! better adjust the algorithm!

[reed13k]

Car was turning itself in.

[wastedyears]

Did they arrest the AI?