I used to worry about what it would do to EVs' reputation if someday an unisolated or defective charger electrocuted a kid touching the EV. This is potentially almost as destructive. If further research confirms this flaw, Tesla has a lot of work to do, and fast.
----- Tesla´s self-driving technology fails to detect children in the road, tests find Professional test driver using Tesla´s Full Self-Driving mode repeatedly hit a child-sized mannequin in its path In several tests, a professional test driver found that the [FSD beta] software - released in June - failed to detect the child-sized figure at an average speed of 25mph and the car then hit the mannequin. [...] At the company´s shareholder meeting earlier this month Musk said that Full Self-Driving has greatly improved, and he expected to make the software available by the end of the year to all owners [who] request it. But questions about its safety continue to mount. In June, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was expanding an investigation into 830,000 Tesla cars across all four current model lines ... A second NHTSA investigation is also under way to determine if the removal of the forward-looking radar sensor on some newer Teslas is causing the vehicles to apply their brakes for no reason, which is called "phantom braking" and can lead to wrecks. [...] Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/tesla-self-driving- technology-safety-children Shortcut URL: https://v.gd/y6Bos3 David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = People don't sleep enough, and they all seem to be hunting something that can't be caught. You think you're the dominant species just because you go to the bathroom in a bowl instead of a box. But who's cleaning up after whom? -- Souseme, "Felines of New York" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
