Tesla crash: Car shifts and injures five passengers, The Independent
Tesla crash: Car rolls and injures five passengers
Initial claims that the crash was the result of an auto-pilot error have been recanted
- Mythili Sampathkumar Fresh York
- @MythiliSk
- Monday seventeen July two thousand seventeen 15:04 BST
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The inwards of a Tesla vehicle is viewed as it sits parked in a fresh Tesla showroom and service center in Fresh York City Spencer Platt/Getty Pics
A Tesla possessor who blamed his car’s autopilot feature for “abruptly accelerating” and spinning his vehicle has said that it was actually him.
The crash occurred west of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, and David Clark claimed he had engaged the semi-autonomous driving feature in his Tesla electrified car on a country road.
According to the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s office, Mr Clark’s Tesla was found overturned in a marsh but the injuries were “minor”.
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But Mr Clark has since said it was actually his own mistake.
“To the best of my recollection I had engaged the autopilot system but then I had disengaged it by stepping on accelerator,” an email sent by Mr Clark to the sheriff’s department read. “I then recall looking up and witnessing the acute left turn which I was accelerating into.
“I believe we embarked to make the turn but then felt the car give way and lose its footing like we hit liberate gravel. That was the feeling that I was attempting to describe to you that I had lost control of the vehicle. The next thing I know tall grass is whipping past the windshield and we were traveling at an odd angle in the ditch and then flipped over the right side and ended up on the roof.”
The “cruise control” option in Teslas use cameras, radars, and an on-board computers to detect lanes, other vehicles, and objects in the road, steering as needed.
Tesla said in a statement following the accident that it has “no reason to believe [the autopilot feature] worked other than as designed.”
The company has not yet responded to the request for information on if drivers and purchasers of Tesla vehicles receive some sort of training to use the feature. The Washington Post reported that Tesla does require drivers to keep their palms on the steering wheel even while the feature is engaged, however.
This is the 2nd time the Palo Alto, California-based company’s autopilot feature has been blamed for an accident.
In Gainsville, Florida, in May 2016, a driver was killed when his Tesla, going seventy miles per hour, crashed into a truck. It was the very first known crash of a partly autonomous vehicle.
Tesla crash: Car spins and injures five passengers, The Independent
Tesla crash: Car rolls and injures five passengers
Initial claims that the crash was the result of an auto-pilot error have been recanted
- Mythili Sampathkumar Fresh York
- @MythiliSk
- Monday seventeen July two thousand seventeen 15:04 BST
The Independent US
The inwards of a Tesla vehicle is viewed as it sits parked in a fresh Tesla showroom and service center in Fresh York City Spencer Platt/Getty Photos
A Tesla possessor who blamed his car’s autopilot feature for “abruptly accelerating” and rolling his vehicle has said that it was actually him.
The crash occurred west of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, and David Clark claimed he had engaged the semi-autonomous driving feature in his Tesla electrified car on a country road.
According to the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s office, Mr Clark’s Tesla was found overturned in a marsh but the injuries were “minor”.
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But Mr Clark has since said it was actually his own mistake.
“To the best of my recollection I had engaged the autopilot system but then I had disengaged it by stepping on accelerator,” an email sent by Mr Clark to the sheriff’s department read. “I then recall looking up and watching the acute left turn which I was accelerating into.
“I believe we embarked to make the turn but then felt the car give way and lose its footing like we hit liberate gravel. That was the feeling that I was attempting to describe to you that I had lost control of the vehicle. The next thing I know tall grass is whipping past the windshield and we were traveling at an odd angle in the ditch and then flipped over the right side and ended up on the roof.”
The “cruise control” option in Teslas use cameras, radars, and an on-board computers to detect lanes, other vehicles, and objects in the road, steering as needed.
Tesla said in a statement following the accident that it has “no reason to believe [the autopilot feature] worked other than as designed.”
The company has not yet responded to the request for information on if drivers and purchasers of Tesla vehicles receive some sort of training to use the feature. The Washington Post reported that Tesla does require drivers to keep their palms on the steering wheel even while the feature is engaged, however.
This is the 2nd time the Palo Alto, California-based company’s autopilot feature has been blamed for an accident.
In Gainsville, Florida, in May 2016, a driver was killed when his Tesla, going seventy miles per hour, crashed into a truck. It was the very first known crash of a partly autonomous vehicle.