A Zeekr van with full sensor suite arrays crashed hard in Echo Park near Dodger Stadium.
Waymo says the vehicle was not operating autonomously and was manually driven. Could be vehicle failure (where’s that redundancy?), or could be driver pedal misapplication like the Audi 5000’s of old. No official statement from Waymo yet.
But, imagine if a Tesla Robotaxi vehicle did something like this, even with a safety driver on board? People would be calling to shut down the whole program. But Waymo? They get their usual pass.
From the article:
“Aside from the autonomous specialist, there were no riders in the Waymo,” the statement said, in part. “The driver exited the vehicle on his own and there are no reported injuries associated with this event.”
In the video, a witness said that the driver told him he hit the gas when he meant to hit the brake.
Nothing to see here really. Just a bog standard minor accident that had nothing to do with Waymo’s autonomous driving.
Tesla’s FSD should be shut down, but since Musk has bought off all the regulators it’s unlikely to happen.
Here’s an article on an NHTSA investigation in FSD:
Federal auto safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into Tesla’s so-called full-self driving technology after dozens of incidents in which its vehicles ran red lights or drove on the wrong side of the road, sometimes crashing into other vehicles and injuring people.
A probe into driver-assistance features in 2.4 million Teslas was opened last year after several crashes in fog and other low-visibility conditions, including one in which a pedestrian was killed.
Another investigation was launched by NHTSA in August looking into why Tesla apparently has not been reporting crashes promptly to the agency as required by its rules.
FSD: Unsafe at any speed.
Edit: According to an Internet search, Waymo has not been responsible for any human deaths in the over 10 years they have been operational. Let’s see how Tesla robotaxi does if Elon ever allows the public to take unsupervised rides.
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I already speculated as such: “could be driver pedal misapplication like the Audi 5000’s of old”
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The witness was not in the car, so didn’t see where the driver’s foot was. Not that there is any “gas” in the Zeekr EV, though, lol.
Yeah, like the Florida lawsuit where the driver dropped his cell phone and his foot then pressed on the accelerator pedal, causing the car to crash. Except there the OEM was found to be somewhat at fault. The difference? One is Waymo, one is Tesla. Like I said, one company gets their usual pass.
One wonders why the Zeekr’s ADAS systems failed, no?
And yet an insurance company finds that FSD driven miles are safer enough to warrant them reducing the rates they charge customers for using it? Did Tesla buy off Lemonade as well?
That’s a rather incendric accusation you made, and not backed by any facts available to us. Do you know anything, or are you simply upset that Tesla is making good progress?
