{"id":75087,"date":"2024-07-31T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75087"},"modified":"2024-07-31T17:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:56:15","slug":"tesla-full-self-driving-was-on-during-fatal-crash-with-motorcyclist-police-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75087","title":{"rendered":"Tesla ‘Full Self-driving’ was on during fatal crash with motorcyclist, police says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla\u2019s \u2018Full Self-driving\u2019 features were reportedly on during a previously reported fatal crash with a motorcyclist, according to the police.<\/p>\n

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In April, we reported on a tragic accident where a driver in a Tesla vehicle admitted to using \u201cAutopilot\u201d and not paying attention when he drove \u201chis car lurched forward and crashed into the motorcycle in front of him<\/a>\u201d \u2013 killing the motorcyclist.<\/p>\n

According to the original report, the driver admitted that he was using \u2018Autopilot\u2019 and not paying attention.<\/p>\n

Now, a new police report following access to the Tesla\u2019s vehicle data claims that the vehicle was actually using Tesla\u2019s latest \u2018Full Self-Driving\u2019 system.<\/p>\n

The driver was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide because of his lack of attention (via Reuters):<\/p>\n

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The 56-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide based on his admission that he was looking at his cell phone while using the driver assistant feature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to NHTSA, this is the second known fatal crash while Tesla\u2019s Full Self-Driving features were activated.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

Again, the responsibility is with the driver. Tesla says that you have to pay attention when using these features and therefore, if something happens while you are not paying attention. It\u2019s on you.<\/p>\n

However, I think Tesla is very well aware that his system is being abused by some people and I think it has a responsibility to try to curb abuse.<\/p>\n

There are simply too many people who believe it is safe to use these features without paying attention. I think that comments made by Tesla\u2019s own CEO and people that Tesla and Musk frequently promote have contributed to that.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t dumb-proof everything, but I think Tesla should put more effort into discouraging abuse. It\u2019s literally a life or death situation.<\/p>\n

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Tesla\u2019s \u2018Full Self-driving\u2019 features were reportedly on during a previously reported fatal crash with a motorcyclist, according to the police. In April, we reported on a tragic accident where a driver in a Tesla vehicle admitted to using \u201cAutopilot\u201d and not paying attention when he drove \u201chis car lurched forward and crashed into the motorcycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}