Florida, the first fatal crash of a car without a driver – BBC

has occurred in Florida on 7 May the first fatal accident of a car in autonomous driving in the United States. Reports were the US federal authorities. The victim was the driver of a Tesla S, which had entered the automatic guidance system on a highway near Williston. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) – which opened a preliminary investigation for a control over 25 thousand vehicles equipped dell’Autopilot- the Tesla Model S has gone to crash into a truck coming from the the opposite direction, that he was turning left. The survey is the first step to issue any order to appeal if it transpires that the vehicles are unsafe. The incident, says the agency, “requires an examination of the design and performance of each driving assistance in use at the time of the crash.” The number one of Tesla, Elon Musk, has expressed his condolences on Twitter after learning of the accident. Immediate the fall of the title of the car maker on the stock market, with a loss of more than 3%.

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Sky too bright

Tesla explained on his website that neither the driver nor the autonomous driving system have seen the white side of the truck, which was perpendicular to the car, especially against a bright sky: the system confused the side of the white truck with the clear sky. “The special trailer height – wrote the company – combined with its location across the road and the extremely rare circumstances impact, have meant that the Model S would get under the trailer.” Tesla claims that the incident led to the first known death in more than 130 million miles flown with the autopilot, and that the investigation of the NHTSA is a preliminary investigation to determine if the system worked as expected. Car Tesla system features is sold starting at $ 66 thousand. In a statement the company reiterates that customers are required to give “express consent” in which indicate that they are aware of the fact that the Autopilot is a new technology still in development: in case the consent is not given, the system is not activated.

Hands on the steering wheel

In report that makes the house of cars on its website, it says that when the driver activates the automatic pilot, the system recognizes only as a function of assistance, which requires you to keep your hands still on the steering wheel at all times, and that you need “keep control of the vehicle and responsibilities while using”: the driver, in short, must be ready to take over at any time. So much so that if they are not detected hands on the wheel, the car sends audible and visual warning signals, and slows down the pace, until you have your hands on the wheel collected again. “They are precautions we take because the function is used in the safest manner possible- explains Tesla- The autopilot can be used for the entire trip, but it is not perfect and therefore always requires the driver to remain alert. However, surely it reduces the workload on the driver’s work and therefore significantly improves the security compared to purely manual guide. ”

The former Marine watched a Harry Potter movie

the last words of the communiqué of Tesla are for the driver dead,” a friend of Tesla, a person who has spent his life for innovation and promise of the technology, and that he believed strongly in the mission of Tesla. ” It is Joshua

Joshua Brown, the man died in the accident (www.tvnz.co.nz)

Brown, 40, a former marine, as illustrated by the Daily Mail . That reveals another disturbing detail: the man was watching a Harry Potter film when the car crashed. Tesla claims that it is not possible to watch movies on the vehicle’s touch screen, but it is possible that the driver was using another device, although the police report does not show this particular. Brown, after studying at the University of New Mexico and may have been 11 years in the US Navy, he founded a research and development, Nexu, headquartered in Stow, Ohio. Brown had avoided another very similar incident earlier this year: on that occasion, had posted on YouTube a video to show how the autopilot had saved him from a side collision with a white truck, warning in time and reporting the need to take control and steer the car to the right to avoid a collision. A video had received more than one million clicks, and who had also been advertised by Tesla to demonstrate how autoguiding could save the lives of motorists.

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