Tesla, Autopilot, and Faking Safety Data
Tesla has been under investigation for crashes involving Autopilot. There is super villain behavior and then there’s what Tesla has programmed their vehicles to do, endangering thousands of people’s lives:
On Thursday [9 June 2022],
NHTSA said it had discovered in 16 separate instances when this occurred that Autopilot “aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact,” suggesting the driver was not prepared to assume full control over the vehicle.
They can report that there are virtually zero accidents when Autopilot is engaged because they program it to turn off moments before the accident thus shifting all blame to the driver.