“””The 38-year-old driver of the Tesla died at a nearby hospital shortly after the crash.
Late Tuesday, Tesla said in a blog post it does “not yet know what happened in the moments leading up to the crash.”””””
I know what happened. Somebody thought a computer could replace human eyes and brains and the car hit a wall.
You got the right answer in 16 words.
Millions will be spent to come up with an alternative answer. It will be wrong.
You don’t know that. Nobody knows yet if the autopilot was being used.
>>I know what happened. Somebody thought a computer could replace human eyes and brains and the car hit a wall.<<
Yes, because human eyes/ears never get in accidents.
I’m not ready to invest in electric cars, self-driving cars, solar power except for special cases (and there are a lot of them), or Tesla’s tunnel idea.
Awhile back I wouldn’t have invested in digital cameras. I was wrong on that one.
This technology WILL happen and it will have a better safety record than humans.
The driver herself would have hit this woman who only appears in the headlights at the last second. A computer radar can and should have seen her even before that.
It might even have detected her- but the only action to miss her would have involved a major swerve of the car, possibly to the point of tipping over.
Imagine if this was a deer jumping in front of the car- does the computer swerve to miss a deer and potentially dangerously impact the car itself or cars around?
I am NOT comparing a deer to a human, I am just explaining this in another light.
If ANY OBJECT suddenly swerves in front of the car, what does the human OR computer do? Suddenly swerve?
I can state what happened in two words:
Driverless car.
“Moody’s said its negative outlook “reflects the likelihood that Tesla will have to undertake a large, near-term capital raise in order to refund maturing obligations and avoid a liquidity shortfall.”
It said Tesla’s weekly production target is now 2,500 Model 3 vehicles by the end of March, down sharply from its year-earlier target of 5,000 per week by the end of 2017.”
nuff said ...