Craig Doty II, a Tesla owner, narrowly avoided a collision after his vehicle, in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode, allegedly steered towards an oncoming train.
Nighttime dashcam footage from earlier this month in Ohio captured the harrowing scene: Doty’s Tesla rapidly approaching a train with no apparent deceleration. He insisted his Tesla was in Full Self-Driving mode when it barreled towards the train crossing without slowing down.
I don’t see any information about the crossing. Was it a crossing without gates? As the sensors must’ve picked that up when driving towards it. If so, is a huge oversight not putting up gated crossings nowadays, certainly on busy roads, regardless of the performance of self driving cars.
Not being able to identify a railroad crossing without a gate is a failing of the car not the train. Gated crossings are not guaranteed, nor should they be because they don’t make sense for every situation in which roads and tracks cross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peXry-_B87g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peXry-_B87g
The video in the article shows lowered arms flashing. Very visible with plenty of time to stop despite the foggy conditions. It just didn’t.
Stuff like that happens whe you opt for visual obstacle detection instead of lidar
Ah. I’ve read it, but I have media tuned of, so I didn’t see the video. Thanks for the clarification!
Yep of course!