Tesla Driver Charged With Killing Motorcyclist After Turning on Autopilot and Browsing His Phone

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Tesla Driver Charged With Killing Motorcyclist After Turning on Autopilot and Browsing His Phone
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Your Tesla is not a 'self driving car' no matter how hard you want to believe it.

A 28-year-old motorcyclist died in Washington State on Friday afternoon because a dipshit Tesla driver rear-ended him at speed. A Snohomish man, 56, was commuting in his 2022 Tesla Model S when he activated the car’s camera-based advanced driver assist system and according to his statements to police, began looking through his phone. With nobody paying attention to the car’s actions, the Tesla software ignored Jeffrey Nissen on his motorcycle and continued on at speed.

The current FSD software requires drivers to keep their eyes up on the road for the system to remain active, where Autopilot doesn’t seem to require this. Autopilot is little more than lane keep assist paired with a camera-based cruise control system.

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