Tesla's autopiloot vermijdt een ongeluk

I was driving down the interstate and you can see the boom lift truck in question on the left side of the screen on a joining interstate road. Once the roads merged, the truck tried to get to the exit ramp on the right and never saw my Tesla. I actually wasn't watching that direction and Tessy (the name of my car) was on duty with autopilot engaged. I became aware of the danger when Tessy alerted me with the "immediately take over" warning chime and the car swerving to the right to avoid the side collision.

You can see where I took over when there's a little bit of blip in the steering. Tessy had already moved to the right to avoid the collision. I was not able to slow down even more due to the heavy traffic (cars were behind me). Once I got behind him I slowly added more room between us until he exited. I was not tail gating after the incident.

It was a mistake on the other driver's part. He did not even know I was there until I honked my horn. There was a group of women in the black sedan to my left and they went nuts about the guy and what he did (all kinds of gesturing in their car). Once I was beside the truck as it slowed down on the ramp, the guy gestured a "sorry!" I gave him, "it's okay" wave.

Tessy did great. I have done a lot of testing with the sensors in the car and the software capabilities. I have always been impressed with the car, but I had not tested the car's side collision avoidance. I am VERY impressed. Excellent job Elon!

Note: I have over 39,000 miles on the car and I've had it since mid-July 2015. Hands down the best car I have ever owned and use it to its full extent. It has done many, many amazing things, but this was one of the more interesting things caught on the dashcam. Note: it's a really poor dashcam, so sorry for the poor video quality.

Note 2: In case you're curious, I'm listening to an audiobook in the background. It's a Malcolm Gladwell book (excellent book).

...maar een auto mag van mij de auto blijven uit de jaren zeventig...

...is een autopiloot, iets wat in steeds meer auto's al een optie is.

DomP om 17:53, 14-04-2016
Als je dagelijks op de weg zit zie je dit nog eerder aankomen denk ik. De auto reageert m.i.z. redelijk laat

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Iphonefan123 om 15:04, 15-04-2016
...en het voertuig heeft de keus om alleen snel links of rechts uit te wijken met aan beide zijden een obstakel:
links een oude oma
rechts een kind

wat kiest de auto?...

Het verschil tussen een kind of een volwassene zal niet bepalend zijn. Het zijn beide obstakels die je wilt mijden.

Kan je niet links en kan je niet rechts, dan is de enige andere optie midden. Remmen dus, en hopen dat er geen vrachtwagen zonder autopilot achter je zit.

Je kunt niet elke situatie incalculeren natuurlijk.