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US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions (apnews.com)

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The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That’s just a train/bus with extra steps and far more risk. Cities with cars as the main mode of transport are still ugly places to live.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I live in what is supposedly taught as the better mobility solution. A dense european city.

It's true, I can go everywhere walking and by public transport.. and it sucks.

Such density to allow for good public transport means living in apartments like ants, instead of houses.

I like walking but in winter or summer it can be miserable. Buses you get really tired of very quickly, crowded, crazy people, smells, having to be on foot because no seats, dizziness, and in big cities pickpocketing. It's a lot of misery IMHO.

I've live like this many decades and I cannot see the time I can move out of the city, well knowing I'll need a car for everything because lower densities does not allow for walking/good public transport. But I find higher densities just miserable to live in.

As such I would love to have self driving cars. Seems such a life quality improvement.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

oh so you're just an unhappy person

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm unhappy of sharing this world with people with such low empathy, yes.

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