(May 13, 2021 at 4:30 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(May 13, 2021 at 2:32 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: Well, the back seat part has already happened...
https://www.thedrive.com/news/40575/cali...-autopilot
I read that article to see if any more information was available. It seems unlikely that autopilot was engaged -- only adaptive cruise control, which disengages if the seatbelt is unbuckled. Therefore, there was a driver in the vehicle. Likely the driver unbuckled and moved around to try to exit the vehicle after the crash.
That makes more sense than "killer autopilot quickly gets up to killing speed in a residential neighborhood and crashes into a tree".
Likely the driver was trying to show off how quickly the car could accelerate up to a high speed, and lost control.
He was definitely using autopilot. In fact, it's even right there in the title of this particular article. There are many ways to fool the Tesla autopilot system to make it think there's somebody in the driver's seat.
Disappointing theists since 1968!