NHTSA. This January 19, 2017, the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), in other words, the “road safety” american, has published a report on the accident of may 7, 2016 involving a Tesla Model S and had caused the death of his driver. The car was indeed built into a truck which made a commitment to be perpendicular on the fast track on which the car was moving. Neither the driver, nor the Autopilot (the software to aid in the conduct of Tesla) had not seen the obstacle and, therefore, none of the two has not braked before the impact.
the driver of the Tesla had 7 minutes to respond
the report of the NHTSA does, however, “no defect in the design or the performance of the systems AEB (the emergency brake, ED) or of incidents in which these systems did not work properly“. Amazing since the car has all the same finished against a truck… But in 2016 the Autopilot, whose capabilities have been greatly improved since the update launched at the end of the same year, was not fully operational and not “designed to be reliable in all modes of collision and, in particular, in crosses” note to the agency which for these reasons trace not the responsibility of the accident to the constructor.
She also points out that Tesla, like other vehicles equipped with support software to the drive, still require for the moment “attention continues and completes the driver to monitor the traffic environment, and take measures to avoid accidents“. The NHTSA also points out that the driver had seven seconds to react between the beginning of the maneuver of the truck and the shock, it is not looked at, therefore, probably not the road. The boss of Tesla, Elon Musk, immediately relayed this information on the Twitter social network by supplementing it with another report from the NHTSA that states that the accident of Tesla decreased by 40% since the installation of the software Autopilot, and more generally software of driver assistance will allow you to save hundreds of lives in the years to come.
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