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05-31-2018, 02:30 AM
Tesla's Autopilot keeps crashing into parked cars. Here's why.
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Another week, another Tesla crashing into a stationary vehicle that just came out of nowhere.
But that's the thing. The electric car's semi-autonomous driving assistance feature, known as Autopilot (https://www.tesla.com/autopilot), has this very situation — parked cars seemingly coming out of nowhere —*written into the manual. It's a known limitation of the driver assistance tool.
SEE ALSO: Pro-tip: Tesla's autopilot doesn't mean you can sit in the passenger seat (https://mashable.com/2018/04/29/tesla-autopilot-passenger-seat/)
This week it was a Tesla driver in Laguna Beach, Calif., that hit a parked police car. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt (and no one was in the police vehicle), but it was another ding for Tesla's Autopilot reputation. It keeps crashing.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/30/tesla-autopilot-stationary-crashes/)
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Another week, another Tesla crashing into a stationary vehicle that just came out of nowhere.
But that's the thing. The electric car's semi-autonomous driving assistance feature, known as Autopilot (https://www.tesla.com/autopilot), has this very situation — parked cars seemingly coming out of nowhere —*written into the manual. It's a known limitation of the driver assistance tool.
SEE ALSO: Pro-tip: Tesla's autopilot doesn't mean you can sit in the passenger seat (https://mashable.com/2018/04/29/tesla-autopilot-passenger-seat/)
This week it was a Tesla driver in Laguna Beach, Calif., that hit a parked police car. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt (and no one was in the police vehicle), but it was another ding for Tesla's Autopilot reputation. It keeps crashing.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/30/tesla-autopilot-stationary-crashes/)
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