Posted on 02/25/2020 3:27:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
The National Transportation Safety Board says the driver of a Tesla SUV who died in a Silicon Valley crash two years ago was playing a video game on his smartphone at the time.
Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at the start of a hearing Tuesday that partially automated driving systems like Teslas Autopilot cannot drive themselves. Yet he says drivers continue to use them without paying attention. He says the board made recommendations to six automakers in 2017 to stop the problem and only Tesla has failed to respond.
The board will determine a cause of the crash at the hearing and make recommendations to prevent it from happening again.
Sumwalt says government regulators have ignored the boards previous recommendations for measures to prevent these crashes.
The March 2018 crash involving a Tesla Model X SUV killed Apple engineer Walter Huang when it swerved and slammed into a concrete barrier dividing freeway and exit lanes.
Just before the crash, the Tesla steered to the left into a paved area between the freeway travel lanes and an exit ramp, the NTSB said. It crashed into the end of the concrete barrier. The cars forward collision didnt alert Huang, and its automatic emergency braking did not activate, the NTSB said.
Also, Huang did not brake, and there was no steering movement detected to avoid the crash, the boards staff said.
NTSB investigators previously found that Teslas system became confused at a freeway exit and was a factor in the crash.
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I wonder how many points the crash cost him in the video game he was playing.
Driving is no time to be playing silly games.
I was driving on the interstate today, in a very hard rain with fog and lots of road spray. Visibility maybe 100ft.
Looked to my left and saw a guy in the next lane playing on a phone propped on the steering wheel. Scary. I wish I could have rapped on his hood with a 2 by 4 to snap him to attention.
His candy got crushed
Game Over, man. Game Over.
Saw a YT video that showed an elderly Asian couple mouth-open sound asleep on a freeway in cali recently. I don’t get it.
lol
It took 2 years to figure that out?
Decades ago you would see a car slightly weaving and you would think alcohol.
Now... Phone.
Grand Theft Auto?
Tesla Model X SUV killed Apple engineer Walter Huang = = =
Tesla Model X SUV = 1
Apple engineer = 2
Walter Huang = 3
Three points
sounds like his seatbelt didn’t work and the airbag didn’t deploy either.
rapped on his hood with a 2 by 4 to snap him to attention.
= = =
double tapped with a 9x19
Don’t most video games give you more than one life? He chose the game to play poorly.
Guess thats why AI in automobiles is so critical for the younger generation.
What recommendations did they make and How did the others respond?
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