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The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I purchased FSD when it was 8k. What a crock of shit. When I sold the car, that was this only gave the car value after 110k miles and it was only $1500 at most.

[-] zante@lemmy.wtf 9 points 2 months ago

Does anyone else find this enraging ?

It’s a decade too late.

[-] telllos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

In five years guys!!

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This is why you can’t have an AI make decisions on activities that could kill someone. AI models can’t say “I don’t know”, every input is forced to be classified as something they’ve seen before, effectively hallucinating when the input is unknown.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Maybe have a safety feature that refuses to engage self drive if it's too foggy/rainy/snowy.

[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Inb4 someone on TikTok shows how to bypass that sensor by jamming an orange in it -__-

[-] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

They need to just ban this technolgy from cars and semis entirely.

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