{"id":1047,"date":"2017-03-06T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2017-03-06T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T20:01:05","slug":"tesla-autopilot-crash-caught-on-dashboard-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/tesla-autopilot-crash-caught-on-dashboard-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Autopilot Crash Caught On Dashboard Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/772px-Tesla_Motors_Model_S-1_close-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/772px-Tesla_Motors_Model_S-1_close-up-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"772px-Tesla_Motors_Model_S-1_close-up\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/772px-Tesla_Motors_Model_S-1_close-up-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/772px-Tesla_Motors_Model_S-1_close-up.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Model S slammed into a highway barrier when its autopilot system malfunctioned and failed to spot the merging of traffic lanes.<br \/>\nSeveral days ago, a Tesla Model S was being driven on autopilot down a highway near Dallas, Texas, when it plowed into a barrier at a construction zone. The driver wasn\u2019t injured, but he blamed Tesla\u2019s autopilot for the accident.<br \/>\nWhen the road required the driver to merge lanes, for some reason, the autopilot computer on board the Tesla failed to recognize the obstruction and the road change of direction leading the car to crash into the barrier.<br \/>\nThe accident was caught on the dashboard camera of a vehicle following the Tesla during the event and the footage actually shows that the Tesla needed to merge or change lane in order to avoid the barrier \u2013 a situation that the Autopilot probably shouldn\u2019t be expected to be able to handle.<br \/>\nForward Collision Warning feature didn\u2019t work as the Tesla\u2019s owner claims that there was no warning. Also, the Automatic\u00a0Emergency Braking is actually not designed to engage if there is an alternative and in this case, the vehicle wasn\u2019t supposed to brake in order to avoid the barrier, the Autopilot shouldn\u2019t be left to react without the driver intervening.<br \/>\nWhat is also clear from the video is that the design of the road at the place of the accident is quite awful since even the driver in the car with the dashboard camera almost crashed into the barrier.<br \/>\nSix months ago, Tesla updated Autopilot software to rely more on radar sensors and less on cameras. The update also disabled the automatic steering system if a driver doesn&#8217;t keep both hands on the wheel. A few months ago, Musk said that by the end of this year a Tesla should be able to drive in full autonomous mode from Los Angeles to New York without the need \u2018for a single touch\u2019 on the wheel. He added that all new Tesla models would come with an $8,000 package for technology that allows the vehicle to drive itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4276810\/Dashboard-camera-footage-captures-crash-Tesla-autopilot.html\" target=\"_blank\"> MailOnline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Model S slammed into a highway barrier when its autopilot system malfunctioned and failed to spot the merging of traffic lanes. Several days ago, a Tesla Model S was being driven on autopilot down a highway near Dallas, Texas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/tesla-autopilot-crash-caught-on-dashboard-camera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}