I get the part about the Tesla not seeing the trailer because of the open area under it but why didn’t it see the tractor as it passed in front of the sensors. Reports said it didn’t brake. It should have braked for the tractor portion?

And given the way this particular driver reacted in his previously posted video (which is to say hardly at all until the car itself saved him) I’m willing to bet he was a bit more nonchalant about the capabilities of the car than he should have been. And I’d certainly be willing to entertain that Tesla is negligent in…

The reaction of the Model S driver would regardless be approximately infinity, seeing as no brakes were applied and police found a DVD player in the car.

It’s called reality, when something happens that does not meet your idea of what SHOULD happen then you should react to what IS happening.

I also never said that the truck driver in this instance wasn’t at fault. My original statement was a general comment simply stating that sometimes trucks have to force their way into traffic.

How far ahead does the radar look? How smart is it about anticipating other “stupid” drivers?

Using a machine in a way its not designed is reckless.

Yes it was. It’s his fault for not paying attention while using autopilot and it’s Tesla’s fault they don’t have a sensor or something at the top of the windshield to detect high objects. This shortcoming was made apparent a few weeks ago when that Tesla rammed into the front of a parked trailer while self-parking.…

The semi crossed a 65 foot median and made it across the entire road before the collision. He didn’t jump out of nowhere and cut the Tesla driver off.

Bottom line, it doesn’t matter what he was doing in the car, what matters is what he wasn’t doing, which is driving. He got so confident with his use of the system, and encouraged by the popularity, that he probably thought the autopilot would drive for him, or at least save him.

Except there was no effort to brake. A semi with a diesel crossing 3 lanes would take at least 10 seconds to cross, especially starting from 0 mph. Those things are slugs.

A spokesman for Tesla said this sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error…

The third rule of Tesla repair is... Ah whatever...

Tesla just needs to review the software logs, this failure was clearly the result of the consumer intentionally misusing the ball joints after all the popups and warnings explictly said not to steer the vehicle more than 0.02 arcminutes past the steering stops or exceed the dynamic shock rate of 3.56 m/s2 in either…

Second rule of tesla repairs. YOU DONT TALK ABOUT TESLA REPAIRS.

Ouch be careful, the jalop Tesla worshippers will mock you for eternity claiming anything else you buy wouldn’t be what you ‘need’ and that low gas prices and American buying trends are affecting you. Tread carefully my friend.

The first rule of Tesla repairs is that you don’t talk about Tesla repairs.

There, I said it.

I’m completely ignoring the news... and saying, I want my car covered in that fender protector material. ridges and everything.

Between this and the news of them software limiting a 75kwh battery to 60, and various lesser news within the past months, I’m disliking Tesla more and more lately.