early April this year invited a driver of a Tesla S, a video on Youtube high. It shows in a white truck that the road changes to a highway and its Tessy, the young man called his car dangerously close to coming. The collision appears inevitable. The Tesla, however, differs from the right and nothing happens. For the owner is clear: “Tessy did great” has, therefore their cause very well done and prevented the collision. He was very impressed, he writes as a comment below the video and sends greetings to Tesla founder Elon Musk. . “Thank Elon”
A month later, in early May, just this driver is dead, The first man, who was killed in an accident in a computer-controlled car, as only at night became known this Friday. Apart from the human tragedy of the accident raises questions: Why only now aware of the case? Does Tesla blame for the deadly collision? What role the driver played itself? How is the cooperation between man and machine? The American traffic supervision NHTSA now checks if the “autopilot” in the accident was working properly. According to NHTSA concerns the preliminary inquiry about 25,000 Tesla “Model S” model year 2015. Whether the driver had this ever been on,
Was the autopilot is not yet known. Not distinguish the truck from heaven?
the accident occurred according to the company, as a truck at a right angle cross the road in front of the self-propelled car Tesla model S. Perhaps the autopilot was not able to distinguish them from the brightly lit sky behind the white-painted side of the truck; the braking function, in any event not triggered. The Tesla is then moved laterally in the truck, its windshield was pressed. Had the self-propelled car approached from the front or from behind the truck, its built-in “Accident prevention system probably prevented more serious injuries”, would have said in the company statement. “The parking brake is not applied,” Tesla now writes in the blog And stresses:.. His cars are already more than 130 million miles (210 million km) with activated “autopilot” driven function in regular American road there was one death per 94 million driven miles.
the “autopilot” can keep pace, distance and speed, brake obstacles or avoid them and automatically parallel parking. in order to detect the environment, he picks among other cameras and radar and ultrasonic sensors back. the Tesla draw while driving all sorts of data and transmit them to the Group. This information is used by Tesla used to make the technology better. driving assistance systems with similar functions are also offered by other automakers.
the autopilot can not stay alone – that’s a problem
the driver of a Tesla can therefore sit back always relaxed? Absolutely not. This makes dealing with this previous self-propelled cars so difficult.
Tesla himself emphasizes that the software that electric cars do not fundamentally about self-driving cars. Drivers would explicitly requested the use of the program, not to take the hands off the wheel and to retain control and responsibility over the vehicle. The group argues that the “autopilot” system is a new technology in the so-called beta, which was parked by default and must be activated consciously. “Autopilot” all the time is better, but it is not perfect and requires the driver to be vigilant, “Tesla wrote in the blog post now. So Tesla would never blame. However: For most automakers the system and check if the driver has the hands on the wheel. If not sound audible alarms and the car slows. In Tesla is not happening as fast
task the driver:. On the car to watch
However, if people have a way with the limitations of technology and the susceptibility to defects in the beta phase, is questionable. “People are not good at sitting around for a long time and a system to monitor,” says the technology ethicist Patrick Lin from the Polytechnic University of California.
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the reaction time of a person who focuses on the road, is given in a braking operation in a car in the driving school with at least one second. If a person has submitted only times the control, it takes at least two, if not 30 seconds until he is fully focused again. Pilots of aircraft flying in auto mode are extra trained and trained for extreme situations to react accordingly, writes ethicist.
In Internet videos were published, is where to see that a number of Tesla driver itself not bound by these conditions, and focused on other things. One even climbed into the back seat and filmed the empty driver’s seat during a motorway journey from there. Only the driver of the truck indicates that he had heard of the accident from the Tesla even the sound of a “Harry Potter” movie.
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