by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Apr 28, 2021 - 03:57 PM
Despite Elon Musk s insistence last week that data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled during the fatal April 17 wreck that killed two men in a Tesla, the company admitted on Monday that one of Autopilot s features was active during the crash, according to CNN.
On Monday s conference call, Lars Moravy, the company s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, responded to a question about the wreck, noting that while Autosteer was not active, the car s adaptive cruise control was: In that vein, we did a study with them over the past week to understand what happened in that particular crash and what we have learned from that effort was that Autosteer did not and could not engage on the road condition that as it was designed.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he s disappointed Elon Musk is talking about a deadly crash involving a Tesla while it s under investigation gkay@businessinsider.com (Grace Kay)
Sen. Richard Blumenthal criticized Elon Musk s decision to tweet about a deadly crash.
Authorities in Texas said Tesla s Autopilot was engaged when two people were killed in a crash in Houston this month.
Musk dismissed the connection between the Autopilot and the crash on Twitter.
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Volvo I was very disappointed that Tesla through its CEO took to Twitter to downplay the involvement of the company s advanced driver assistance system before both the NTSB and NTHSA have completed their ongoing investigation into the deadly accident, Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said Tuesday during a Senate committee hearing.
Tesla Says Texas Crash Likely Had Someone In The Driver s Seat
Apr 27, 2021 at 8:43am ET ++ A steering wheel deformation would say so.
Tesla waited for its Q1 2021 earnings call to finally address the fatal crash that killed two men in Texas. According to Lars Moravy, Tesla’s vice president for Vehicle Engineering, the information that there was no one in the driver’s seat that came from authorities at the crash site would not stand against the deformed steering wheel in the Model S.
Moravy said Tesla “worked directly with the local authorities, NTSB and NHTSA” and came to some conclusions regarding that crash. The first one was “that Autosteer did not and could not engage on the road condition as it was designed.” Despite that, the “adaptive cruise control only engaged when a driver was buckled in about 5 mph,” and “it only accelerated to 30 mph with the distance before the car crashed.” You can listen to him in t
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