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Tesla touts its Autopilot and FSD driver assistance systems as life-saving technologies that will improve road safety for everyone. However, Tesla EVs driving on Autopilot or FSD have been involved in many crashes, some of them deadly. WSJ analyzed over 200 Tesla crashes involving the Autopilot system and revealed previously unknowable patterns.
However, as Tesla is trying to move things fast, the things it broke are hunting it, with over 1,200 crashes resulting in at least 14 fatalities being under investigation by the NHTSA. So far, these investigations have moved very slowly, and Tesla likes to keep it that way. The carmaker blocks the release of descriptive details about its reported crashes, saying that those details amount to confidential business information.
On the other hand, the NHTSA hasn't been more accommodating, withholding key information from the public. The agency cites its obligation to protect personal privacy under federal law. This leaves the mission to uncover the truth to journalists trying to piece together information from multiple sources.
Journalists have been putting together a unified database in a bid to match those cases with corresponding NHTSA submissions. This allowed WSJ journalists to discover details about 222 crashes involving Tesla Autopilot.
Of them, 44 occurred when Teslas on Autopilot veered suddenly off the road. In 31 crashes, Tesla EVs driving on Autopilot failed to stop or yield for an obstacle in front of it. These two types of crashes account for the most serious injuries and deaths in the cases the WSJ unlocked.
Details of over 200 Autopilot-related accidents were complied, with new patterns being discovered.
The report states that in the accidents, Tesla’s Autopilot struggled with obstacle avoidance, and cars also veered off the road.
When computers go wrong, we tend to assume it's just some software hiccup, a bit of bad programming. But ionising radiation, including rays of protons blasted towards us by the sun, can also be the cause. These incidents, called single-event upsets, are rare and it can be impossible to be sure that cosmic rays were involved in a specific malfunction because they leave no trace behind them.
And yet they have been singled out as the possible culprits behind numerous extraordinary cases of computer failure. From a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial airliner that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight, injuring dozens of passengers
Plus, since giant ejections from the sun can sometimes send huge waves of particles towards Earth, what's called space weather, an unnerving prospect looms: we could see much more disruption to computers than we're used to during a massive geomagnetic storm in the future
Jain is one of tens of thousands of Tesla owners who have experienced premature failures of suspension or steering parts, according to a Reuters review of thousands of Tesla documents. The chronic failures, many in relatively new vehicles, date back at least seven years and stretch across Tesla’s model lineup and across the globe, from China to the United States to Europe, according to the records and interviews with more than 20 customers and nine former Tesla managers or service technicians.
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