Tesla Inc (TSLA)

[r clarke]

Perhaps you have not had time to actually read the reports.

“In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision. The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken.”

There was plenty of time for an alert or at least awake driver to correct for the autopilot.

http://www.hazardcontrol.com/factsheets/pdfs/driver-reaction-time.pdf






"It doesn't matter. The drivers of those accidents would not had enough time to adjust anyways. Even if the Apple Engineer that died in the Mountain View Highway accident had his hands on the wheel, and reacted at the first sign of trouble, the accident couldn't have been prevented. Same thing with the other accidents. "