For a long time, the public actively discussed the cases of collisions of Tesla electric vehicles with special services vehicles standing at the edge of the roadway with flashing beacons turned on at night, until the company’s programmers managed to teach automation to take them for obstacles. Now, it looks like Tesla electric vehicles will have to learn how to avoid collision with aircraft.
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Naturally, since these two types of vehicles can only cross their paths on the earth’s surface, we are not talking about completely trivial cases of their interaction. On the pages Reddit one of the eyewitnesses posted a fragment of footage from an airport security camera showing a Tesla Model Y electric car colliding with a $3.5 million Cirrus Vision light aircraft standing still. him at some distance. Automation began to perform the necessary maneuvers and movement, but could not recognize an obstacle in the rear part of the aircraft fuselage raised above the ground and stop in time. The recording shows that after contact with the aircraft, the car continued to move, turning it around a vertical axis.
In principle, for the practice of using Tesla automation, this case is not entirely unique. If we recall the investigation into the causes of one of the first fatal accidents involving the active driver assistance function in Florida, then it was found that at the intersection, Tesla on-board cameras did not notice a light semi-trailer blocking the path of an electric vehicle against a bright sky, and the car dived under the truck at full speed. In the situation with a collision with an airplane, we see about the same thing: the sky in the direction of the car was quite light, and the lower part of the fuselage of the aircraft was painted white.
It should be added that in a particular incident with an aircraft, there is a significant share of the fault of the car owner. The specifics of the Summon function is the need to hold your finger on the smartphone screen during the automatic movement of the electric vehicle to its owner. If a situation arises that requires the car to be stopped, it is enough for the owner to lift his finger from the smartphone screen. In this case, apparently, he simply was not attentive enough, since the car continued to move for several more seconds after contact with the aircraft.
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