03/11/2024

Next Autopilot Trial to Test Tesla's Blame-the-driver Defense

The system may not work as well as advertised

Six weeks before the first fatal U.S. accident involving Tesla's Autopilot in 2016, the automaker's president Jon McNeill tried it out in a Model X and emailed feedback to automated-driving chief Sterling Anderson, cc'ing Elon Musk.

The system performed perfectly, McNeill wrote, with the smoothness of a human driver.

"I got so comfortable under Autopilot, that I ended up blowing by exits because I was immersed in emails or calls (I know, I know, not a recommended use)," he wrote in the email dated March 25, 2016.

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