Tesla Autopilot - needs some work

[JeffKeryk]

Originally Posted by Shannow
Originally Posted by JeffKeryk
Originally Posted by Shannow
He maintained his lane position around a curve, while asleep ?

That's pretty impressive.

Driver said he was asleep.Driver Response


OK, so you are stating that clearly he accelerated while asleep...you SURMISE that he did.

While clearly, the vehicle, with an asleep driver managed to maintain lane position on a curve.

I posit that the autopilot was still operational in order to do that...or miraculously his wheel alignment was off quite badly, and coincidentally exactly poorly enough to maintain lane position.

I am not stating anything. I am not surmising anything.
Just following what he said and what I know as an owner of a Model 3.
He said in another post that he might have had his foot on the accelerator.
Emergency braking is overridden by the driver accelerating
AP and Emergency braking are both overridden by driver inputs, which only makes sense.
I am pretty sure you would agree.
Do I know how this happened? Of course not.

I am happy no one was hurt.
I am curious to see if further information comes out about this.
By the way, AP and Emergency braking are 2 different things' AP is optional; I believe emergency braking is standard. You can turn it off but it is reset automatically reset when the car is restarted.
Driving is serious business. Driving while tired is dangerous. AP while tired is just plain stupid; you are still driving the car.
Tesla warns driving is the driver's responsibility regardless of AP

I am not sure I am the one surmising events here.

 

[dishdude]

It's odd they would set the emergency braking up to be overridden by the accelerator.

 

[Shannow]

Originally Posted by dishdude
It's odd they would set the emergency braking up to be overridden by the accelerator.


Most FBW kills the power when the brakes are applied.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Originally Posted by dishdude
It's odd they would set the emergency braking up to be overridden by the accelerator.

The driver overrides Emergency braking. As well as AP. The driver is in charge.

From the video, AP could be on because the car seems to be centered in the lane. Or the driver steered the car. Who knows?
AP accelerates if you initiate a lane change to go around other cars, if necessary.
Otherwise, it keeps a safe distance behind it's following car; speeding up and slowing down with traffic.
You can take your foot off accelerator, kinda like cruise control.
If will warn you if you take your hands off the wheel for a length of time; I forget what that duration is.

Emergency braking has a high rating by the groups that evaluate such things.
Again, what happened here is unknown.
I am curious as to what caused the accident. Perhaps more will come out.
That, beyond driver error which is ultimately the issue.
Driving while tired is dangerous. AP might even lull you to sleep. A perfect storm.

It seems like the crash was not too bad as the air bag did not deploy.
As far as the video shows, anyway. Hopefully no one was hurt.

 

[dishdude]

I haven't set off the auto braking on the VW or Challenger yet, but my old Jeep would not allow the throttle to override auto braking. I had a turning car in front of me, the system went off and when I hit the gas to go around and it did nothing until the car was no longer in front of me.