In May this year an accident in Florida involving electric Tesla Model S took the lives of Buckeye. At one of the intersections electric "ducked" under the semi-trailer truck that performed the maneuver in the perpendicular direction. It was believed that the automatic braking system at that time to give priority to the data of the front camera could not see the white board semitrailer against the clear Florida sky.
Responsible for road safety authority NHTSA American this week announced the completion of the investigation of this tragic incident, and stated that it is not found in the autopilot Tesla any defects to be corrected urgently. In fact, it was recognized that automation Tesla Motors was not the culprit of the accident. In this department during the reconstruction of the events found that a semi-trailer onboard was supposed to be in the driver's field of vision electric for seven seconds prior
to the collision.
In the same report, as explained colleagues, provides statistics of accidents involving Tesla electric cars for two years, from which it is clear that after the introduction of the automatic rudder number of collisions involving vehicles of this brand fell by 40%. Electric vehicles with second-generation equipment that is installed in the autumn of last year, the head of Tesla Motors believes, should reduce the number of collisions for another 90%. Software updates that have made many of the functions
of "autopilot" available to owners of the latest generation of machines, activated this week.
This same resource shared body image "supercomputer" NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2, which became the "brain" of driver assistance systems of the second generation Tesla. As it turns out, it is set on the right side of the dashboard, behind the glove compartment. Related Products :
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