Original video, authorisation from the owner. Essential, no one could predict the accident but the radar did and acted by emergency braking. pic.twitter.com/70MySRiHGR
— Hans Noordsij (@HansNoordsij) 27 December 2016
Tesla’s Autopilot system has attracted a lot of controversy in recent months but since then, the company has introduced several software and hardware updates in an attempt to make its vehicles even more capable and more importantly, safer.
This 45-second video of an accident on the highway in the Netherlands demonstrates the enhancements Tesla have done. In it, we can clearly hear the Autopilot’s Forward Collision Warning beeping suddenly for no apparent reason.
All becomes clear when a fraction of a second later, the vehicle in front of the Model X crashes into an SUV. From where the Tesla driver was seated, the SUV wasn’t clearly visible (or the driver wasn’t looking that far ahead) but apparently it was for the Autopilot’s radar.
What’s impressive about the Autopilot system in this incident is the fact that the Forward Collision Warning alert came on before the lead vehicle even applied the brakes, indicating that the Autopilot wasn’t just locked on to the vehicle ahead of it (which didn’t appear to apply its brakes before crashing) to plan its path, but also the SUV in front of it.
The driver of the Tesla also reported that the system started braking before he could apply the brakes himself, according to Hans Noordsij, the man who reported the video. He added that everyone involved in the accident “turned out to be OK” despite the fact that the SUV rolled over.
In September, Tesla released the Autopilot 8.0 update, which places a greater reliance on radar, rather than on cameras as it has done before. The update is applicable for all Model S and Model X cars built starting October 2014.
More recently, the company announced that all its future electric vehicles will be equipped with the company’s new-generation full self-driving hardware, which will be able to offer up to Level 5 autonomy over time via over-the-air updates, starting with Autopilot 8.1.
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proper gap kept from behind. 2 seconds. giving sufficient distance to braking safely. in malaysia, the myvi or vios is right behind your rear bumper. result – pile up.
101% agreed
If you don’t want myvi/vios right behind your bumper :
1. Drive faster.
2. Get the eff off.
Slow drivers cause accidents more than fast drivers.
Just drive within speed limit..
Let the myvis and Vios tail gate you. If anything happens, it’s their ncd that’ll be gone. You just claim from these losers, at least they’ll learn their lesson.
eventhough i not driving myvi/vios but a better car,
i fully agree with your statement
the only reason car is right behind you is you drive slow and not giving way. for whatever reason if faster car come, just give way la it’s only for less than 10 secs. if not the they have to cut you from left which is alot dangerous
There is no problem in giving way. The problem is not able to giveway due to heavy traffic on the left lane while we overtaking it. Some tailgater keep on flashing you even though you can’t give way and forcing you to driver faster while you already at 120-130km/h on the fast lane (overtake). These type of drivers are truly idiot I would say.
If you are driving in Thailand highways dont do this kind of things. In fact i noticed driver in Thailand are more polite..they dont tailgate and flash you high beam unnecessarily if they to overtake you when they are fast..they usually give signal to change to left lane to overtake or least they can do they just wait until you give your way..i think because everybody may have gun nobody want to intimidate anyone..
You are right Carbon if the driver is driving slow in a fast lane. But i think alldisc is referring to those tailgater who like to intimidate new/lady driver.
Install anti-tailgating laser on your car’s backside.
boy, if they often do tat, they will do so with any car. dun bring narrow mindset to prime technology topic
Really true. i also notice most cars that like to tailgate are vios/myvi.. don’t know why…
You forget to mention Saga BLM and Satria Neo.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Very impressive!
Meh… tesla should have said something like this… “Impact in 5… 4… 3…”
THEN I will be impressed!
or yelled “brace! brace! brace for impact”
Hope the Tesla has some sort of warning to cars behind it. To warn them the Tesla is about to brake hard. Considering that humans may not be able to react as fast as software.
yea i am 100% sure there is no way to add the sound into video afterwards
Duh…if the red car in front is tesla then it’s a credit to tesla. In this case tesla is behind there’d car n giving ample time n notice ….marketing gimmick. Tesla could not even see a white truck in front n smash into the truck killling the driver in earlier accident .!!!
This self drive thing available for Malaysian market ke meh? nanti I beli the car but this function omitted rugi la, dah la kena bayar mahal.
Depending on situation and autonomous driving could do more harm. Sometimes its better to accelerate instead of braking and resulted in pile up.
Being too slow causes accidents. Being too fast causes deaths. Seems perfectly fine to go with automated drivers that keep to the limits.
Funny thing for Msia: No AI can save you from pure idiots who not only flout the laws, but do not know how to drive. But maybe it could predict these bummers better? Who knows?
Listen to the language and you know it’s an advanced country….