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Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says (autos.yahoo.com)
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[–] 17 points 4 months ago* (12 children)

Bet they are lying and just pressed the wrong pedal by themselves. Bet they were on their phone, the cruise control beeped and then they panicked and floored it. Insurance companies probably have to deal with a ton of Tesla owners who are blaming the Autopilot for a mistake the driver made, even when the cruise control wasn't used.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Seems like a pretty risky lie as the car should have logs saying exactly what happened (at least to the level of detail of cruise control + accelerator vs self-driving).

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Until Tesla scrubs that from their log again like they were already caught doing once

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Curious: what was the outcome of them being caught doing that?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    The jury didn't like it, but it didn't really prove anything that wasn't already known. I'm not really sure why they did what they did in the end? It wasn't disputed that AP was on, and that the guy overrode the saftey systems. The jury found them partially at fault because they allowed the system to operate there and because they claim it didn't work as advertised, and it was a huge jury verdict damages they have to pay.

    I have a feeling it's going to get a reduced damages though as it goes through appeals. The dude was looking down for a phone he fumbled with his foot on the accelerator which overrides the safety systems, to the point the car warns you on screen that it will not brake while your foot is on the accelerator. And guess what... the car did not brake! Surprise!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, that might have been plain old incompetence rather than deliberate evidence tampering if both sides agreed to the bits that incriminate their own side. Unless there was something more going on that the logs would have shown, like "damage detected while self-driving enabled, dispatching Tesla cleanup crew to take care of the witnesses".

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like your insurance should automatically be higher for being stupid enough to purchase one.

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