$TSLA Autopilot engineer CJ Moore, of DMV fame, admits that the "Autopilot computer" can itself...crash. Rarely. But it does happen.
When an automobile crash happens, $TSLA receives "on the order of seconds" worth of data from the vehicle's buffer, according to Moore.
Moore's testimony does not seem to be entirely accurate here. If there is no microphone, then it would be impossible to process voice commands. $TSLA
Moore distinguishes between different kinds of data buffers, which is a point never made when Elon Musk or other $TSLA representatives discuss the "billions of miles" recorded.
Who is in charge of Autopilot crash investigations at $TSLA? No one, according to Moore.
"the vehicle was not detected as a vehicle"
This is probably the clearest statement on the record from $TSLA about why radar is crucial for driver assistance systems. It's certainly different than what we have heard so far.
It must be very uncomfortable to maintain, under oath, that your software was working properly to accomplish its narrow purpose and that in so doing it led to your customer being decapitated. $TSLA
According to one of the people who built Autopilot for $TSLA, it is "not capable of detecting a general hazard." (Or from other examples, a traffic cone.)
On August 8, 2019, Elon Musk accused @AaronGreenspan of "putting people's lives at stake" for questioning $TSLA's safety claims.
About a year later, CJ Moore refuses to answer in the affirmative when asked if Autopilot is safer than a human driver—a claim Musk has made often.
@AaronGreenspan Is the problem that killed this person fixed today? According to $TSLA, no, not really. Shrug.
@AaronGreenspan An interesting answer given the "But there weren't any road lines" debate from Houston, Texas recently. $TSLA
@AaronGreenspan "...I would just reiterate the point that the system was working as intended..."
At $TSLA, user death and subsequent litigation equals "working as intended."
Wow.
@AaronGreenspan When someone dies in a $TSLA and Autopilot is involved, analysis of that crash and whether it could have been avoided...isn't recorded anywhere?
@AaronGreenspan Or maybe it is, but we CC the lawyers so it can be claimed to be attorney-client privileged. (Both of these explanations cannot be true.)
@AaronGreenspan For his part, Elon Musk claims he doesn't really know much more about this Autopilot thing than anyone else, and besides, he's so busy launching people and things into space that he couldn't possibly be bothered to be deposed about a customer's avoidable death. $TSLA
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We're putting the law in plain sight. $TSLA
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