The FSD Beta system may cause crashes by allowing the affected vehicles to: "Act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution," according to a safety recall report on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The FSD Beta system may also have trouble responding appropriately "to changes in posted speed limits," the notice said.
The group of affected vehicles included the following years and models: 2016-2023 Model S and Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles equipped with or pending installation of FSD Beta.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/business/money-report/tesla-recalls-362758-vehicles-says-full-self-driving-beta-software-may-cause-crashes/3169064
I bet this causes the stock to crash, and call into question the underground tunnel Teslas ever achieving autonomic status under the Las Vegas Convention Center
Read an article about an electrical engineer (ret.) whose first Tesla, an early version, decided on its own to crash into a police cruiser. Undeterred he went on to own two or three more and still drives one. He seemed to have a good understanding of how the tech behind the cars' various features work, and as he also noted, statistically they're still safer than other cars out there, glitches and driver stupidity notwithstanding.
ReplyDeleteI've ridden in them dozens of times, they seem like fine cars... BUT having a computer control the driving, is a bad idea, and it's been proven that the computer isn't fool proof yet. It's been within recent memory that the blue screen of death randomly interrupts it's work, that a computer can't yet operate spellcheck infallibly, so, NO, let's not let the computer operate a 4000 pound battery pack that takes 6000 gallons of water (nearly 1/2 a loaded milk truck size tank) to extinguish. It's smarter to put the hand on the wheel, and the foot on the accelerator
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