A 28-year-old motorcyclist died on Friday afternoon in Washington state Because A shitty Tesla driver hit him from behind at high speed. A 56-year-old Snohomish man was driving his 2022 Tesla Model S when he activated the car’s camera-based advanced driver assistance system This is evident from his statements to the policestarted looked through his phone. With Nobody pays attention to the car’s actions, the Tesla software ignored Jeffrey Nissen on his motorcycle and continued driving at high speed. The car rammed the two-wheelerNissen was thrown from the bike and his life ended trapped under the electric car, where he was still stuck when police arrived at the scene.
The Tesla driver, who told police he trusted the machine to drive for him, was inattentive to the road ahead and was only brought back to reality when he “heard a bang as the car lurched forward.” . .” The driver was not impaired by drugs or alcohol, but admitted to consuming alcoholic beverages before the accident at 3:54 p.m.
Local news reports said the driver was using “autopilot” instead of “fully autonomous driving,” although the two systems are often confused with each other. Current FSD software requires the driver to keep their eyes on the road for the system to remain active, while Autopilot apparently doesn’t require this. The autopilot is little more than a lane departure warning paired with a camera-based cruise control system.
Tesla will claim that it is not responsible for the incident, as the official statement is that its so-called Autopilot and Full Self-Driving software is “intended for use by a fully attentive driver who has his or her hands on the steering wheel and However, the company and its CEO have consciously engaged in a public discussion and describe the cars as “self-driving,” and the people who buy these cars believe them. This isn’t even the first time A “self-driving” Tesla hit a motorcyclist.
The unnamed Tesla driver was booked into the Snohomish County Jail on a charge of vehicular homicide. He posted $100,000 bail on Sunday.
After to a survey by Forbes93 percent of Americans have concerns about the safety of self-driving cars and 61 percent say they would not trust a self-driving car. But when it comes to Tesla “beta testing” this half-baked software on our public roads, we have no legal recourse to challenge it. Some Tesla drivers risk the lives of everyone around them because they paid for the privilege. The system can’t even detect a damn motorcyclist.