Exclusive: Surveillance Footage Of Tesla Crash On SF's Bay Bridge Hours After Musk Announces...

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Exclusive: Surveillance Footage Of Tesla Crash On Sf’s Bay Bridge Hours After Elon Musk Announces “Self-Driving” Feature

Musk has said Tesla’s problematic autopilot features are “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.”

The Intercept | Ken Klippenstein | Jan 10, 2023

HIGHWAY SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE from Thanksgiving Day shows a Tesla Model S vehicle changing lanes and then abruptly braking in the far-left lane of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle crash. The crash injured nine people, including a 2-year-old child, and blocked traffic on the bridge for over an hour.

The video and new photographs of the crash, which were obtained by The Intercept via a California Public Records Act request, provides the first direct look at what happened on November 24, confirming witness accounts at the time. The driver told police that he had been using Tesla’s new “Full Self-Driving” feature, the report notes, before the Tesla’s “left signal activated” and its “brakes activated,” and it moved into the left lane, “slowing to a stop directly in [the second vehicle’s] path of travel.”

Just hours before the crash, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had triumphantly announced that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” capability was available in North America, congratulating Tesla employees on a “major milestone.” By the end of last year, Tesla had rolled out the feature to over 285,000 people in North America, according to the company...
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/

Tesla owners call this "Phantom Braking" - it is NOT a rare occurance
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/search/5095596/?q=phantom+braking&o=relevance

Link to tweet

Every Single Person on the road is in danger when near a Tesla. And MusQ is lying- there is NO SUCH THING as "Full Self Driving" anywhere in the entire world- he's lying. Again.

Perhaps the employees of NHTSA and NTSB own Tesla stock? Maybe the California DMV Director too?

[dalton99a]

1. He's too cheap to fix his bullshit software

[BSdetect]

2. It often turns out that these drivers give accounts that do not stand up to actual events

His description sounds suspicious to me.

Let's see how this pans out.

[ecstatic]

3. I don't allow my car to brake for me

No thanks to both autobraking and Tesla. For now, I'll continue driving myself and paying attention to the road at all times! Autopilot/ AI relies on cameras and sensors which can be thrown off by a lot of things--bright sunlight, darkness, dirt, weather conditions, etc.

[Zeitghost]

4. Just for some perspective

One Tesla stopped in the middle of traffic.

Seven human driven cars were not paying attention or driving too fast for the conditions and failed to stop for a hazard in the road.