Robert Sumwalt, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, had some choice words to share on Tuesday about the Autopilot driver assistance feature that the electric carmaker Tesla touts as a key offering associated with its cars. Cars like the Model X that was traveling on Autopilot at about 70 mph back in 2018 when it crashed into a safety barrier and killed 38-year-old Apple software engineer Walter Huang in 2018 in a fiery crash.
At the end of a three-hour-long hearing Tuesday, the safety board issued its findings in the wake of the crash, which Sumwalt offered some context for via his critique of Tesla’s Autopilot mode. Unfortunately, investigators said Tuesday, the driver was playing a video game on his smartphone when his car tragically crashed — something you absolutely cannot do when you’re riding in a car with partial automation, Sumwalt stressed.
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Overconfidence in Tesla Autopilot contributed to 2018 Model X crash, safety board announces originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 17:33:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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