Tesla Owner Tests New Autopilot Cyclist Avoidance - Will the Rider Go Splat?

Tesla Model S early adopter and one of the first Tesla-focused YouTubers, KmanAuto, is back with another death-defying Autopilot versus human test. This time pitting his Model S against friend and serial test dummy Mike Anthony who rides a bike directly into the path of the moving two-ton electric sedan.

The experiment conducted by Kman and Mike is in response to a recent article that claims Tesla Autopilot will kill bikers. Through a series of tests that involved driving a Model S between 18 mph (29 kph)  to 30 mph (48.28 kph) directly into Mike while he’s on a bicycle, Kman aimed to disprove any notion that Autopilot acts erratically and will collide with bikers. The vehicle being used in the test was a Model S with Autopilot 1.0 hardware on firmware 8.1 (17.11.10). Autopilot and Autosteer was enabled on all tests.

mre30 - 6/26/2017 11:15:16 AM

+4 Boost

At some point there will be a Tesla autopilot fatality website.

Quick, someone should go register www.teslabodycount.com !

TheSteve - 6/26/2017 11:39:41 AM

+1 Boost

YouTube is rife with videos done by people who know nothing about science, claiming to show you "the truth." Also see videos about Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness monster, Atlantis, the hollow Earth, the secret Lizard People society, etc.

SanJoseDriver - 6/26/2017 12:23:47 PM

+2 Boost

Another perspective: many Tesla owners are engineers and this test seems a whole lot more scientific than what the Stanford student did. The fact and truth is that Autopilot has never killed a single biker, neither AP1 (2014 hardware) nor AP2 (2016 hardware).