Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
If you see all the comments of the truck driver about this accident you will see that he is a liar, he caused the accident and tried to cover his behind, because failed to yield right of way and caused a death may be charged more than traffic ticket.
I may not trust police in many cases, but I do trust police report for accident especially the accident resulted in a death person.
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
The truck driver is it fault 100%, but why are you so quick to condemn him as a liar? He will get a ticked no matter what. You dug out the police report, where is the written report taken from the truck driver by the police? Why are you relying on media comments saying he stated this or that?
Fact is the Tesla driver was inattentive/distracted enough that he never touched the brake pedal. Watching a movie could cause exactly that.
Again, where is the incentive for the truck driver? But I do see the incentive for Tesla to dismiss or discredit such information. You are doing exactly that in this thread.
One news organization posted this "Police report stated that truck driver claimed he didn't see the Tesla before he made the left turn"
Truck driver said this to some news organizations "The car went though my trailer so fast I didn't see it"
Truck driver said two more thing "I saw the Tesla driver watch a movie at the time of accident", "The portable DVD player was playing Harry Potter at the wrecked car, no I didn't see it I hear someone said that". How a driver making a left turn didn't look to the street he is turning into, but looked to his right for the car he didn't see just few seconds before and didn't see few seconds later, but somehow saw the driver watching movie on a portable DVD player ?
He clearly made up stories to cover his behind, he thought his was at fault for this accident that killed the Tesla driver, so if he an shift the blame to the other party so that his responsibility will be less severer, this is his incentives to lie to police and everybody who would listen to him.
Didn't you read my post just above your latest post here in this thread ? I didn't put 100% fault to the truck driver, I only assigned his responsibility 1/3 and Tesla and the driver each 1/3.
I also posted somewhere in this thread or the other thread about the Israeli company that design part of the autopilot said that current release doesn't have capability to avoid this type of accident, the cross traffic, I also posted that Tesla is responsible for not clearly educate their customers about the limitations of the current release autopilot.