"Tesla Says" would be more accurate, since Tesla was the one to officially report it first via their blog and they also notified the US Highway department so they can do an independent investigation.
Not sure if your comment is meant to insinuate that Tesla is being more transparent than it needs to be. Its press release, dated June 30, refers to a fatal accident that happened on May 7. Judging by the first sentence of that press release, it seems to have been spurred because the U.S. decided to open an investigation yesterday. Tesla has had 50 days to say something and they waited until the day after they learned about the investigation.
AFAIK, accidents in which a consumer complaint is received or in which a defect in a vehicle or vehicle-part is suspected is sent to the NHTSA [1], which then decides whether or not to conduct an investigation. The NYT article makes it sound like the NHTSA has been in contact with the Florida Highway Patrol...I don't see where it says that Tesla went out of its way to tell the NHTSA (at least compared to other automakers)
Yeah, the Tesla press release should still be on the front page, all things considered. 360+ upvotes in 8 hours. I believe having a lot of comments might increase a submission's gravity, but not to that extent...especially as the discussion doesn't seem to yet be flame-heavy.
Yep. Release should still be up. Without more detail on the specific algorithm used and log of the relevant events, it will be hard to say much more.
However, I see no reason for this article to have been memory-holed. It is not based on the Tesla release, contains information the Tesla release does not, and I have seen no other story on the front page, let alone better than #15, that this could be considered a dupe of.
The report from Tesla says the autopilot didn't see the truck because the "white side of the tractor trailer" mathched "a brightly lit sky". It doesn't mention radar which should have had a huge signature. On twitter Musk addresses radar and says "radar tunes out what looks like an overhead road sign to avoid false braking events".
Isn't the obvious question why does it also tune out huge overhead road signs which are moving from left to right across the road?
The answer is simple -- they still have logic to work out.
One of the recent SpaceX rockets crashed on the landing because of some basic missing logic. One of the 3 rockets wasn't able to produce the expected thrust. [1] The is an easy solution: the other 2 rockets increase thrust to compensate, but this logic didn't exist.
It's more difficult than you make it sound, because the engines can't throttle below 70% or above 100%. They don't call it a "suicide burn" for nothing.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 35.3 ms ] threadNot sure if your comment is meant to insinuate that Tesla is being more transparent than it needs to be. Its press release, dated June 30, refers to a fatal accident that happened on May 7. Judging by the first sentence of that press release, it seems to have been spurred because the U.S. decided to open an investigation yesterday. Tesla has had 50 days to say something and they waited until the day after they learned about the investigation.
AFAIK, accidents in which a consumer complaint is received or in which a defect in a vehicle or vehicle-part is suspected is sent to the NHTSA [1], which then decides whether or not to conduct an investigation. The NYT article makes it sound like the NHTSA has been in contact with the Florida Highway Patrol...I don't see where it says that Tesla went out of its way to tell the NHTSA (at least compared to other automakers)
[1] http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/flatfiles.cfm
Now it is gone and tagged DUPE with no related story on the front page.
However, I see no reason for this article to have been memory-holed. It is not based on the Tesla release, contains information the Tesla release does not, and I have seen no other story on the front page, let alone better than #15, that this could be considered a dupe of.
Isn't the obvious question why does it also tune out huge overhead road signs which are moving from left to right across the road?
One of the recent SpaceX rockets crashed on the landing because of some basic missing logic. One of the 3 rockets wasn't able to produce the expected thrust. [1] The is an easy solution: the other 2 rockets increase thrust to compensate, but this logic didn't exist.
[1] http://gizmodo.com/spacex-just-crashed-a-rocket-right-into-i...