Video From Chinese Model S Shows Just How Much Work The Tesla Autopilot Feature Still Needs

A Tesla Model S was involved in a crash in Beijing earlier this week, with yet another driver blaming Autopilot. This is the first alleged Autopilot crash in China, but when you watch the video, it’s amazing it happened at all.

In the video from CarNewsChina, you can see that the Tesla was moving quite slowly when a disabled Santana on the left comes into view, about 100 feet after a warning triangle. The car in front of the Tesla had no issue scooting over in its lane to make room. The driver of the Tesla, for some reason, made no such move.

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MDarringer - 8/5/2016 12:56:46 PM

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That's laughably bad on so many levels. More evidence that the technology is not ready for public roads, but here we go with drivers abdicating responsibility...yet again.

hangtime010 - 8/5/2016 4:19:46 PM

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The technology is ready for public roads, just not for idiot drivers who can't think for themselves. These so-called drivers should only want to blame someone/something else as "it can never be their fault".
As I've heard people say. Just because some people have money to afford a luxury car doesn't mean they know how to drive.

MDarringer - 8/6/2016 9:58:35 AM

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If the technology cannot detect the stopped car, it is not ready for the road. Tesla bills this as autopilot and it so obviously should be called driverkiller.

SanJoseDriver - 8/6/2016 9:47:16 PM

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Except it just saved someone's life who had a pulmonary embolism.

http://fortune.com/2016/08/06/tesla-autopilot-hospital-rescue/

It would be irresponsible to slow down innovation in this space in any way. The tech already objectively leads to fewer accidents and deaths. A few edge cases like the one above pale in comparison to the numberous mistakes most drivers make on a daily basis behind the wheel.

MDarringer - 8/6/2016 10:41:43 PM

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Cash your check from Elon! I hear he has a new poster out that you'll need for your bedroom. This one has more padding in the crotch so fans will be even more mesmerized.

The NAZI Holocaust was billed as an innovation too. Some "innovations" need to be stopped dead in their tracks.

SanJoseDriver - 8/7/2016 4:01:00 PM

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Wow, you are comparing Tesla Autopilot to the HOLOCAUST? You have just discredited every word that comes out of your mouth. This is the point where I stop feeding the troll.

MDarringer - 8/7/2016 7:17:55 PM

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Yes I am, you paid tool. Elon may be South African but he is a NAZI at heart. Tell me, are your Elon Youth shorts a bit too tight in the crotch? Elon's watching. Elon would have been a priest if there had been money in it.

You're a paid tool and we all know it.

mpls - 8/8/2016 2:24:11 PM

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If it cannot avoid a blocking obstacle be it a car or anything else, shows Tesla's auto pilot is not ready.. Tesla are employing software engineers who probably do not know how to drive. probably the whole concept of tesla Autopilots has been designed by tools lead by a tool...
I think any other manufacturer would at least get the basics right.

hangtime010 - 8/9/2016 1:49:25 PM

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Are there not videos, some from police cruisers no less, that show drivers hitting cars parked on the shoulder of the road? No autopilot there yet they still hit the car (and sadly sometimes they've hit people). But it was simply a matter of the driver not paying attention and wonder "how could they not see that car".
If we look back, I'm sure they're plenty of accounts of those accidents.
At least autopilot didn't rear-end the car.
Not taking sides, and I agree more R&D needs to be done. But everyone's blaming the technology outright because it's the Hot Topic.