Tesla Model 3 Drives Straight Into Overturned Truck In What Seems To Be Autopilot Failure

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Maybe not. People in the linked Twitter account are questioning whether the autopilot feature was enabled at the time. You can see a puff of smoke from the rear as the brakes are applied just before impact.

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Tesla Model 3 Drives Straight Into Overturned Truck In What Seems To Be Autopilot Failure

Jason Torchinsky
Yesterday 1:48PM • Filed to: TESLA MODEL 3

Earlier today, on Taiwan’s National Highway 1 near the Zhongshan High Chiayi Water Section, a Tesla Model 3 crashed right smack into the roof of an overturned truck trailer. It appears that the wreck was caused by the Tesla’s Autopilot system not detecting the large rectangular object right in front of it, in broad daylight and clear weather. We have seen Autopilot failures like this before, especially ones involving large, immobile objects.

There’s video of the wreck, and you can see the Tesla drives right into the truck, with only what looks like a solitary attempt at braking just before impact:

Tesla Model 3 plows info overturned truck on highway. I’m sure the driver was paying complete attention to the road and wasn’t relying on autopilot because he was told the car could drive itself....
$TSLAQ

Link to tweet

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