This is legitimately a common cause of crashes in every model of car. People accidentally press the accelerator when they try to press the brake, and when the car speeds up, they press even harder on what they think is the brake but is actually the accelerator. After the crash, the driver often still insists that they were pressing the brake and the car was at fault.
It’s probably even more common in Teslas because the driver doesn’t need to have their foot on either pedal in the time leading up to the incident, increasing the chances that their feet aren’t aligned how they’re used to.
No, it’s just means that determining if it was or wasn’t engaged is meaningless. And so is reporting on individual Tesla crashes as anything else than another car accident.
You do realise he talked specifically about crashes that are caused by a feature advertised as self-driving and not every crash ever by a car brand, don’t you?
But i don’t see them being posted here… how strange! The last one i recall seeing was the woman who drove her range rover through fence and children in London when she allegedly has seizure behind the wheel.
It’s not just weird nerds now. Regular people who are just sick of having to drive for their daily commute will defend FSD and refuse to hear the dangers of their poorly implemented code and driver monitoring cameras. To them, convenience trumps safety and privacy.
There was no evidence FSD was involved in this crash.
There are 16,000 wrong pedal crashes in the US every year, 77% are in parking lots. This is so bad most retail strip malls now have cement and steel bollards surrounding the shops.
My hospital now has these bollards because once a month some idiot parks too far from the parking payment machine, exits a car while the transmission is in drive. We tried signs. The public is very difficult to underestimate.
This is referring to another crash mentioned in the article, but I’m sure Tesla will find this was the cause for this crash too.
Elon is never guilty of anything, people are dead and he has a trillion dollars…
Add it to the pile. It’s a big pile. This happens a lot. Always somehow the driver’s fault.
This is legitimately a common cause of crashes in every model of car. People accidentally press the accelerator when they try to press the brake, and when the car speeds up, they press even harder on what they think is the brake but is actually the accelerator. After the crash, the driver often still insists that they were pressing the brake and the car was at fault.
It’s probably even more common in Teslas because the driver doesn’t need to have their foot on either pedal in the time leading up to the incident, increasing the chances that their feet aren’t aligned how they’re used to.
Maybe…but old fat fucks mash the wrong pedal every day in any car. It’s the reason why retail is now surrounded by anti-tank battlements.
Last month, 7 in hospital when someone ended up driving into a gym…
Is ford guilty of every crash too?
Which model of Ford is being advertised as Full Self Driving and is crashing into people?
It’s never engaged in the time of a crash because it’s programed to disengage when the crash is inevitable.
That still doesn’t mean every Tesla crash is caused by its driver-assistance technology
No, it’s just means that determining if it was or wasn’t engaged is meaningless. And so is reporting on individual Tesla crashes as anything else than another car accident.
Nobody said it was.
ThePantser did:
You do realise he talked specifically about crashes that are caused by a feature advertised as self-driving and not every crash ever by a car brand, don’t you?
Yes. Holy fuck yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimshaw_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
But i don’t see them being posted here… how strange! The last one i recall seeing was the woman who drove her range rover through fence and children in London when she allegedly has seizure behind the wheel.
It’s not just weird nerds now. Regular people who are just sick of having to drive for their daily commute will defend FSD and refuse to hear the dangers of their poorly implemented code and driver monitoring cameras. To them, convenience trumps safety and privacy.
There was no evidence FSD was involved in this crash.
There are 16,000 wrong pedal crashes in the US every year, 77% are in parking lots. This is so bad most retail strip malls now have cement and steel bollards surrounding the shops.
https://www.hardywolf.com/news/nhtsa-offers-tips-to-avoid-pedal-error/
This is a problem, but it’s not a Tesla problem.
My hospital now has these bollards because once a month some idiot parks too far from the parking payment machine, exits a car while the transmission is in drive. We tried signs. The public is very difficult to underestimate.