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Driver killed in Silicon Valley Tesla crash was playing video game
ktla ^ | 02/25/2020

Posted on 02/25/2020 3:27:03 PM PST by BenLurkin

The National Transportation Safety Board says the driver of a Tesla SUV who died in a Silicon Valley crash two years ago was playing a video game on his smartphone at the time.

Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at the start of a hearing Tuesday that partially automated driving systems like Tesla’s Autopilot cannot drive themselves. Yet he says drivers continue to use them without paying attention. He says the board made recommendations to six automakers in 2017 to stop the problem and only Tesla has failed to respond.

The board will determine a cause of the crash at the hearing and make recommendations to prevent it from happening again.

Sumwalt says government regulators have ignored the board’s previous recommendations for measures to prevent these crashes.

The March 2018 crash involving a Tesla Model X SUV killed Apple engineer Walter Huang when it swerved and slammed into a concrete barrier dividing freeway and exit lanes.

Just before the crash, the Tesla steered to the left into a paved area between the freeway travel lanes and an exit ramp, the NTSB said. It crashed into the end of the concrete barrier. The car’s forward collision didn’t alert Huang, and its automatic emergency braking did not activate, the NTSB said.

Also, Huang did not brake, and there was no steering movement detected to avoid the crash, the board’s staff said.

NTSB investigators previously found that Tesla’s system became confused at a freeway exit and was a factor in the crash.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: crash; tesla; videogame
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1 posted on 02/25/2020 3:27:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
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I wonder how many points the crash cost him in the video game he was playing.


2 posted on 02/25/2020 3:29:05 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: BenLurkin

Driving is no time to be playing silly games.


3 posted on 02/25/2020 3:29:59 PM PST by xp38
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To: BenLurkin

I was driving on the interstate today, in a very hard rain with fog and lots of road spray. Visibility maybe 100ft.
Looked to my left and saw a guy in the next lane playing on a phone propped on the steering wheel. Scary. I wish I could have rapped on his hood with a 2 by 4 to snap him to attention.


4 posted on 02/25/2020 3:30:31 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: dp0622

His candy got crushed


5 posted on 02/25/2020 3:32:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dp0622

Game Over, man. Game Over.


6 posted on 02/25/2020 3:33:11 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: BenLurkin


Image may not be an accurate representation of the crash....
7 posted on 02/25/2020 3:33:34 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: BenLurkin

Saw a YT video that showed an elderly Asian couple mouth-open sound asleep on a freeway in cali recently. I don’t get it.


8 posted on 02/25/2020 3:33:37 PM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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9 posted on 02/25/2020 3:33:47 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: BenLurkin

lol


10 posted on 02/25/2020 3:34:39 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: BenLurkin

It took 2 years to figure that out?


11 posted on 02/25/2020 3:34:51 PM PST by lee martell
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Yet he says drivers continue to use them without paying attention.

cars that "kind of" drive themselves are a prescription for disaster, as this wreck shows.


12 posted on 02/25/2020 3:38:01 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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Decades ago you would see a car slightly weaving and you would think alcohol.

Now... Phone.


13 posted on 02/25/2020 3:41:37 PM PST by lizma2
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To: BenLurkin

Grand Theft Auto?


14 posted on 02/25/2020 3:42:39 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: dp0622

Tesla Model X SUV killed Apple engineer Walter Huang = = =

Tesla Model X SUV = 1

Apple engineer = 2

Walter Huang = 3

Three points


15 posted on 02/25/2020 3:44:50 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: BenLurkin

sounds like his seatbelt didn’t work and the airbag didn’t deploy either.


16 posted on 02/25/2020 3:45:06 PM PST by shotgun
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To: nascarnation

rapped on his hood with a 2 by 4 to snap him to attention.
= = =

double tapped with a 9x19


17 posted on 02/25/2020 3:46:16 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t most video games give you more than one life? He chose the game to play poorly.


18 posted on 02/25/2020 3:48:07 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: BenLurkin

Guess that’s why AI in automobiles is so critical for the younger generation.


19 posted on 02/25/2020 3:48:15 PM PST by Lockbox
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"He says the board made recommendations to six automakers in 2017 to stop the problem and only Tesla has failed to respond."

What recommendations did they make and How did the others respond?

20 posted on 02/25/2020 3:49:29 PM PST by DannyTN
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