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Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged During Fatal Model X Crash (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Tesla says Autopilot was engaged at the time of a deadly Model X crash that occurred March 23rd in Mountain View, California. The company posted a statement online late Friday, after local news reported that the victim had made several complaints to Tesla about the vehicle's Autopilot technology prior to the crash in which he died. After recovering the logs from the crash site, Tesla acknowledged that Autopilot was on, with the adaptive cruise control follow distance set to a minimum. The company also said that the driver, identified as Apple engineer Wei "Walter" Huang, had his hands off the steering wheel and was not responding to warnings to re-take control. Tesla said in a statement: "The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver's hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision. The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken."
According to Mercury News, the driver of the car was headed southbound on California's Route 101 when his Model X crashed headfirst into the safety barrier section of a divider that separates the carpool lane from the off-ramp to the left. "The front end of his SUV was ripped apart, the vehicle caught fire, and two other cars crashed into the rear end. [The driver] was removed from the vehicle by rescuers and brought to Stanford Hospital, where he died from injuries sustained in the crash."
According to Mercury News, the driver of the car was headed southbound on California's Route 101 when his Model X crashed headfirst into the safety barrier section of a divider that separates the carpool lane from the off-ramp to the left. "The front end of his SUV was ripped apart, the vehicle caught fire, and two other cars crashed into the rear end. [The driver] was removed from the vehicle by rescuers and brought to Stanford Hospital, where he died from injuries sustained in the crash."
To get that cash, he has to keep in the news and make a lot of hype.
Right, because sticking to what he's doing has been so ineffective...
That's right. He's been losing money for over 14 years. And the whole thing of blaming his suppliers for those bolts was just pure stupidity. It was just distracting everyone from his own incompetence.
Bosch has decades of auto industry experience and even IF those bolts weren't up to spec, they should have been caught by QA. See, competent automakers actually check what their suppliers send them.
Musk is just incompetent.
Unfortunately, thanks to his cult of personality, a lot of people are dumping their hard earned money down the Tesla hole.
And then you have the stupid people or folks who have never read a Tesla financial statement ever say stupid things like: "Tesla is not losing money! They are building up!" or the most moronic one "Tesla is investing their profits back into the business!" What profits?! They never had any- except for that ONE quarter due to accounting tricks.
And then Musk's compensation package?! WTF?!
Tesla shareholders are just plain stupid.