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TESLA OWNER GETS ARRESTED FOR DUI IN THE MIDDLE OF FREEWAY WHILE USING AUTOPILOT

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17 Sep 2021, 18:10 UTC ·
by Gustavo Henrique Ruffo

Although autonomous driving was basically a solved problem for Elon Musk since
June 2016 – when he said so – the truth is that no vehicle currently for sale
can drive itself. It does not matter: there will always be someone willing to
prove that’s not true with their own lives. The latest example came from
Glendale, California, where a woman was arrested in the middle of the Ventura
Freeway, a portion of the SR 134. Unconcious behind the steering wheel, she had
her car on Autopilot.
8 photos

ABC7 informed that her car hit a roadside wall at around 11 PM on September 16
and kept going. The CHP (California Highway Patrol) then started following the
EV and realized what we have just described above. A CHP patrol car entered in
front of it and started slowing down, bringing the Model 3 to a stop at the
transition to the 5 Freeway.

The woman behind the steering wheel was then arrested and charged with a DUI
(driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs) offense. The police did not
reveal her identity so far, but she’s not the only one in trouble due to this
situation: Tesla also is.

NHTSA is currently investigating the company for 11 crashes of its cars on
Autopilot against emergency vehicles. Shortly after the probe started, another
Tesla crashed against an FHP (Florida Highway Patrol) Orlando car. In Norway, a
Tesla Model S stopped right in the left lane of a busy road. It took Autopilot
10 kilometers to detect that the driver was incapacitated.

In a recent article, Jason Torchinsky tested for Jalopnik something he heard
multiple times about Autopilot: that the car would go to the right and pull over
on its own. The vehicle just stopped right where it was in his tests, as the
Model S did in Norway.

Autopilot advocates will claim that this is the safest thing the system can do,
thinking only about the Tesla occupants. What they miss is that all other
vehicles on the same road are in great danger: having a 2-ton EV parked in a
fast lane may cause a massive pile-up.

That said, whenever someone claims this episode proves Autopilot saves lives,
don’t miss the opportunity to stress the truth about this. Who actually avoided
the worts, in this case, was the CHP by managing to safely stop a rogue vehicle.
The fact that it was being controlled by a beta software that people think makes
their cars autonomous only makes things harder for Tesla.







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