For Tesla, the Autopilot feature has always been a feature of their charging promotion, but autopilot is not completely trustworthy.
According to foreign media reports, a newly released dashcam video shows a doctor driving a Tesla after activating the Autopilot function, crashing into 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.
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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.
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.
There are many studies that argue that Tesla's Autopilot technology can't live up to the level of security 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.
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Original title: Tesla's autopilot function causes trouble: the driver watches a movie while driving and crashes directly into the police car
Source: Fast Technology