Only a Model S, now a Model X: A US agency investigated another accident if the autopilot was at fault or not. After the negative headlines Volvo joins his project once the brakes.
Tesla autopilot does not come from the headlines: A few days after the announcement of a fatal accident with a Tesla Model S examines the US Transportation Security Administration a second accident , The investigations are still at an early stage: it must first be clarified whether the autopilot at the time of the accident was ever in operation, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), with the night of Thursday
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on July 1, a 77-year-old from Michigan with its Model X is – the electric SUV Tesla – on a highway in Pennsylvania to be an accident – according to US media reports should the cars have first touched a guardrail, have to be thrown across the road and roll over after impact against a concrete wall. The driver and his son, who also was in the car are to be unharmed.
According to the Pennsylvania State Police the driver should have said to an officer, that he had the autopilot activated. Whether the car was actually an autonomous way and whether the driver has again taken control before the accident, it must be clarified in the investigation now.
the five stages of the automated driving
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level 1: driving assistants
The driver steers, brakes and accelerates automatically. Simple systems such as spacers support him.
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Step 2: Part Automated Driving
the electronic system takes over certain functions such as automatic parking or the track holding. The driver, however, remains more a responsibility to keep your hands on the steering wheel.
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Level 3: High Automated Driving
the vehicle moves largely autonomous, the driver no longer has to monitor everything permanently. He must take his hands off the steering wheel, but must be able to advance warning to take control again.
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Step 4: Fully Automated Driving
the driver can still accept, but is no longer necessary to control the car. Electronic systems can automatically handle all traffic situations.
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Step 5: Automated Guided Driving
the steering wheel is omitted, the car is only controlled by the system.
Tesla himself announced meanwhile that it was still unclear whether the autopilot was turned on. This could be because the antenna of the autopilot could have been damaged in the rollover. but first it was said by the company, it saw “no reason to believe that the autopilot had something to do with this accident.” Tesla had also tried three times to call the driver – but could not reach him. Several US media could not talk to the 77-year-old who in Michigan to have an art gallery.
The company stated also that one can only make a statement about the state of the autopilot with security if you have read the data memory of the Model X.
the Tesla Chronicle 2003-2015
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2003, the beginning
Two teams around the US engineer Martin Eberhard and billionaire Elon Musk designing the vision of an electric vehicle powered with batteries. On the basis of the prototype T-Zero. Besides Musk also the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and eBay founder Jeff Skoll put money into the project.
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2006 premiere of the Roadster
Three years working Tesla on the first model, in July 2006 the company is presenting the Roadster. The two-seater sports car based on the British lightweight Roadster Lotus Elise has a 215 kW (292 hp) electric motor which draws its energy from 6,831 lithium-ion laptop batteries.
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2007 Eberhard goes
in August 2007, the then CEO Martin Eberhard steps down in December 2007, he leaves the company completely. At the end of the armed founder ends up almost in court -. To an amicable agreement can be reached
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August 2009, entry of companies
Musks financial resources alone are no longer sufficient for growth. With Daimler and Toyota to rise two major auto companies in Tesla. Nevertheless, the company continues to write millions of losses.
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September 2009 Release Model S
Long was planned under the code name “White Star”. At the IAA in Frankfurt, the Model S, a 5-seat sedan will premiere. Initially accepts Lotus manufacturing. As of 2011, the model is built in a former Toyota factory in Freemont. . Each year, 10,000 models were initially manufactured
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January 2010. Geldspritze from State
Tesla receives US Department of energy for a loan over 450 million dollars. The money is invested in the development of its own production.
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June 2010 , IPO
Musk dares the IPO. With an issue price of 17 dollars, the electrical manufacturing goes onto the market – and makes the founders rich again. Overnight reached the proportions of Musk reach a value of 650 million, although the company has up to this point has never made profits
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2012 SUV plans
Tesla announced plans to bring its own SUV at the start. The Model X will be delivered for the first time in the summer of 2015 and extend the model range of Tesla. At the end of a delay in plans, the production of the Model X does not start up in the fall -. And the slow
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2013 first profitable
Finally, Tesla is in the black. Even the millions of credit State pays the company nine years earlier than it would have been necessary. With the issue of new shares and bonds, the company takes about one billion dollars. The company’s share price now amounts to 147 dollars. The company is in the stock market worth more than Fiat.
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2014 the Gigafactory is built
in May, construction work in Reno, Nevada, for the world’s largest battery factory have begun. Here Tesla will assemble not only the batteries for its electric cars and so-called “power walls” for home use, but also make the battery cells themselves from raw materials. The investment amounts to five billion dollars, as a partner Panasonic is also on board.
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2015 the mass market to come
Tesla announces plans to try to bring the Model 3 a compact car for the mass market to market. The car, to be rudimentary first shown in March 2016, cost about $ 35,000, according to Tesla and to a range of 320 kilometers (200 miles) feature.
On June 30, so only one day before the accident, the NHTSA had announced that there had been a fatal accident with a self-propelled Tesla. In the incident in Florida a Model S should have known the trailer of a truck at an intersection right and collided with him.
Tesla had introduced the semi-autonomous function in the past year and enabled via a software update for its cars. The autopilot can keep pace, distance and speed, brake obstacles or avoid them and automatically parallel parking.
Tesla emphasized at the same time reiterates that the software that electric cars do not fundamentally about self-driving cars and drivers should stay organized and their hands on the wheel. However, many videos were published on the Internet, on which is to see that a number of Tesla driver do not comply with these requirements. In contrast to the semi-autonomous Jam Assistant, which only work in a very narrow context, Tesla restricts the autopilot is not one.
Although the investigations into the two accidents are still running, still have. they already impact on Tesla and the United States also: Volvo announced differently than originally planned but to want to bring not totally self-driving cars in 2017 on the street. “No, no one will read in 2017 behind the wheel of a Volvo emails,” said Erik Coelingh, development manager for self-propelled vehicles, the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. Volvo could not prove that the car “to cope with all the unusual situations. Therefore, the autopilot must be monitored by the driver for the time being continue.”
According Coelingh are it hard to recognize unnamed objects on the road, like a lost spare or a fallen exhaust. Moreover, is not yet fully understood what would happen if the control technology were unviable about because of a computer error.
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