Lawyers for the plaintiff argue that Tesla’s driver-assistance feature called Autopilot should have warned the driver and braked when his Model S sedan blew through flashing red lights, a stop sign and a T-intersection at nearly 70 miles an hour in the April 2019 crash. Tesla lays the blame solely on the driver, who was reaching for a dropped cell phone.
Right, I wasn’t expecting it to read road signs. I guess I was assuming there’d be things along the way it should react to. I used to see subaru aeb testing done with a traffic cone. But, with no details, I should be assuming anything about the presence of objects prior to hitting the people. The Mark Rover video showed the autopilot will continue anyway once the “object” is no longer in sight of the system
Ya, it would definitely do that, it’s just traffic aware cruise control. It’s probably part of why autopilot will turn itself off when a collision is imminent, because it’d probably just drive off after if it didn’t. It’s clear ahead? Go! I think the other reason is I think the true AEB system (not AP deciding to stop, but the AEB mechanism that’s always on) overrides it, and turns it off. Like the two are mutually exclusive systems. That’s just a hypothesis though. Simply ensuring the vehicle doesn’t continue after might be reason enough.