According to reports, a newly released dashcam video shows a doctor driving a Tesla after activating the Autopilot function, hitting a police car parked on the side of the road, and then the hit police car hit a deputy sheriff. And when it all happened, the doctor was in the driver's seat with his phone watching a movie.
The accident occurred in the summer of 2020, but it wasn't until the North Carolina Highway Patrol released a video of the scene on Wednesday that the full course of the accident was truly revealed.
The video comes from a dashcam in a police car parked on the side of the road. In the video, two law enforcement officers are standing next to U.S. Route 64, one from the North Carolina Highway Patrol And the other from the Nash County Sheriff's Office.
Just then, a highway patrol car that had just been hit by Tesla came into view, stabbed at the two officers obliquely and hit the deputy sheriff. When he was hit, patrol officers pulled him to safety.
The struck patrol car then slid into a ditch on the side of the road. Photographs taken after the accident showed that the vehicle had been severely damaged.
Law enforcement officers then pointed out that without the help of patrol officers, the situation of the deputy sheriff could be much more serious than it is.
"Fortunately, when the state patrol heard the tire screaming, they pushed our deputy sheriff out, otherwise he might have died on the spot." Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone said after the accident, "The consequences are unimaginable. ”
In the aftermath of the crash, devainder Goli, a North Carolina doctor who was the driver of the vehicle involved, was accused of using his phone to watch movies while driving a Tesla car using the Autopilot feature.
Gholi was arrested and charged with driving illegally and "watching TV equipment while driving." Online searches revealed that his doctor's license had been "permanently revoked."
Similar accidents are becoming more common among Tesla Autopilot users.
The U.S. Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) identified at least 12 major traffic accidents related to Tesla Autopilot. The agency has launched a federal investigation into the electric car giant and ordered Tesla to submit Autopilot data.
The investigation is still ongoing.
While NHTSA has only confirmed 12 Accidents Related to Autopilot, CNN reports that other Crashes related to Tesla Autopilot have resulted in at least 17 injuries and 1 death.
In addition, there are many studies that believe that Tesla's Autopilot technology cannot achieve the level of security that the company claims. Some of these reports came from NHTSA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A California family sued Tesla last July after losing its 15-year-old son and was widely reported in the media. At that time, a Tesla controlled by the Autopilot function failed to slow down in time, but instead crashed directly into the pickup truck where the boy was, throwing him out of the car and taking his life.
The family believes that Tesla's technology should bear some responsibility for the accident.
But Tesla and its billionaire CEO Elon Musk deny that their Autopilot is not safe enough. The company's website also claims that "many factors can affect the performance of Autopilot components, causing them to fail to perform the intended functionality." ”
Source: Sina Technology
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