The driver who had an accident with the Tesla Model S with the Autopilot, was… LOOKING AT HER SMARTPHONE!
After the great controversy generated, the driver who suffered a serious accident with the Autopilot of her active Tesla Model S, admits that at the time of the blow, she was looking at her smartphone.
Car accidents are relatively normal, especially in conventional vehicles, which tend to occur due to neglect or recklessness. A few days ago a Tesla Model S was crashed, which had a major accident in Utah, United States, which hit a truck stopped at a red light. Logically, an accident involving a vehicle owned by Elon Musk's company is bait for the news around the world, since the Model S was supposedly in Autopilot mode, as the driver says.
The injured driver with a Tesla Model S admits that she was looking at her smartphone with the Autopilot on.
It seems that the 28-year-old, owner of the Model S, forgot a small detail when she commented that the vehicle was in automatic mode and that is, she was looking at her smartphone, at the same time that the vehicle was in automatic mode. During the moment in which I look at the smartphone, the driver crashed at 96 kilometers per hour against the fire truck stopped at the traffic light.
The problem is that the owner thought that the Autopilot is a completely operational and infallible system, which drives for us, thinking that when it is active, we can forget about the road and stop being aware of the road. The sensationalist media, or what is the same, all, turned to attack Tesla, assuring that they are not safe vehicles. Musk exploded on social networks, highlighting that in the United States there are more than 40.000 accidents a year and they do not attack other companies.
Musk stressed that despite hitting a stopped fire truck at a speed of 96 kilometers per hour, the driver only injured one ankle, while in practically any other vehicle on the market, it could have caused very serious damage and even, the death. This speaks well of the safety of Tesla vehicles and makes people's stupidity very clear.
Source: engadget
