Tesla Exec Says Autopilot Prevents About 40 Crashes Per Day via insideevs.com
According to information shared at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in New Orleans, Tesla's Autopilot advanced driver-assist system may prevent about 40 crashes per day. It seems the car may avoid accelerating into objects or people even when the driver pushes the go pedal unintentionally.
Ashok is specifically referring to crashes that are caused by the driver accidentally pressing the accelerator pedal at 100 percent rather than the brake pedal. A move like this is often initially blamed on"sudden unintended acceleration" until the authorities can determine why the car accelerated instead of stopping. Ashok explains via Teslarati:
The Autopilot Software Director goes on to say that the driver in the video would have likely ended up in a river if Autopilot didn't kick in and stop the car from accelerating. A second video shows a
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