Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into house, woman killed: Investigators

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was allegedly in self-driving mode crashed into a Texas house Friday night, killing a woman who was inside the home, investigators said.

Michael Butler was traveling in his Tesla Model 3 around 8 p.m. local time in Katy, Texas, and was operating the vehicle "with an automated driving assistance system," the Harris County Sheriff's office said in a statement.

Butler allegedly failed to drive in a single lane, left the roadway and struck the residence, according to the sheriff's office.

"Butler's Tesla entered through the brick residence, at a high rate of speed, and struck M. Avila who was inside the residence," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/tesla-allegedly-autopilot-mode-crashes-173809621.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Sue Tesla and Musk for a billion dollars.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

8. A Trillion!!

[Melon]

2. A lot of these cases turn out to not be driven on the automatic system.

It’s very easy to tell once they download the computer information as all driving inputs are captured. It seems premature to publish the story as automated when it can be easily proven within days by pulling the data. My tesla would absolutely jerk back into the lane if it even got close to the lane paint.

[uncle ray]

6. of course, data will prove that.

i have no doubt that the autopilot handed control back to the human drive many milliseconds before the crash.

[flvegan]

3. The Tesla couldn't figure out that it was headed for a fucking house?

Couldn't figure out that it had left the road?

Utter shitbox if true, and Tesla's "autopilot" or whatever the fuck they're calling it these days (and please spare me, Stans) should be cause enough to permanently park these things until shitbag Musk's "car company" can fix it (which it won't, because why should it) or disable it.

[Blue Owl]

4. Let's give the CEO of that company another trillion

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. If not the fault of the automated system, then the Butler did it.

[City Lights]

7. Arrest the CEO of that shithole company. nt

[Melon]

9. VP of Tesla software responds

“Tesla’s VP of AI software, Ashok Elluswamy, “ …In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.”