Posted on 02/11/2020 12:46:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X hit a concrete barrier on a Silicon Valley freeway had complained before his death that the SUV’s Autopilot system would malfunction in the area where the crash happened.
The documents say Huang told his wife that Autopilot had previously veered his SUV toward the same barrier on U.S. 101 near Mountain View, California where he later crashed. Huang died at a hospital from his injuries. “Walter said the car would veer toward the barrier in the mornings when he went to work,” the Huang family’s attorney wrote in a response to NTSB questions.
Huang also described Autopilot’s malfunctioning to his brother, the attorney wrote, in addition to talking with a friend who owns a Model X. Huang, a software engineer, discussed with the friend how a patch to the Autopilot software affected its performance and made the Model X veer, the lawyer’s response said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Morticia Addams to Gomez’s life insurance agent:
“Gomez is up on the roof — he believes if he jumps from a higher and higher place with a smaller and smaller parachute, one day he won’t need a parachute at all.”
Why are we taxpayers paying subsidies for these death traps?
Other Tesla drivers have the same problem, same place?
Not insurance but so his wife can sue Tesla for millions.
What make/model did you buy?
““Walter said the car would veer toward the barrier in the mornings when he went to work,””
So why did he keep using it??
As an engineer I agree that there is a certain satisfaction in finding a bug and being able to reproduce it.
Self driving cars will be government driven cars.
Are you using your turn signal when changing lanes?
You oughtta.
So he could watch the video?
Where does this blind trust come from?
Stupid post. The driver still drives the car.
You can’t fix STUPID!!!
“Doctor, my arm hurts every time I do this....”
My wife worked for/with a great Family Practice doc for close to 4 generations.
The only time I heard complaints were based on this: “Doctor, my arm/leg/knee/neck/shoulder hurts every time I do this....”
The doctor’s response was, “Don’t do that any more!” Then he thanked the patient and went to the next patient. Then, the patient got a bill for this excellent advice.
So, when I heard this complaint from his patients, my normal reply was “That was good advice from your doctor, you aren’t 20 anymore.!”
The good doctor had given me that advice several times, and too often, I didn’t listen to him and spent money on PTs to discover that I shouldn’t do that anymore.
Nobody likes a complainer.
Or some decaying piece of silicon/metal and electrons would always perform exactly as calculated. No rotting material in that world....probably wanted to binge watch Netflix while driving...
DWO and autopilot... it was only a matter of time.
I have a lefty relative who has one. I’ve heard the battery, alone, is a fortune to replace.
“Woz once said to never trust a computer you couldn’t throw out of a window “
Makes no sense. The server-computer must have scrambled it.
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