Tesla has been working on self-driving technology for a long time. And while the test drives were continuing, a striking claim about the company came to the fore. According to some sources, Tesla's autonomous vehicles failed in test drives at the point of seeing and noticing children. According to the statement, trials were conducted with a professional test driver using Tesla's Full Self-Driving mode. However, the vehicle repeatedly crashed into a child-sized dummy in its path.
A safe tech advocacy group released Tuesday made a series of claims about the technology that Tesla's full self-driving software is set to hit the world's leading electric car maker. In the process, the latest in the investigation, it was alleged that the child poses a potentially deadly threat to pedestrians.
The aforementioned security test was conducted by Dawn Project. During testing, the latest version of Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software repeatedly bumped into a child-sized dummy in its path. This revealed the claims that Tesla's latest technology has difficulty recognizing children. So much so that it suddenly became part of an advertising campaign urging the public to pressure Congress to ban Tesla's self-driving technology.
In several tests, a professional test driver noticed that the software released in June was unable to detect the child-sized figure at an average speed of 25mph. It was determined that this caused the car to hit the mannequin. Dawn Project founder Dan O'Dowd, who made some statements on the subject, described the results as "extremely disturbing".
At the same time, O'Dowd stated that while Elon Musk said that Tesla's Fully Self-Driving software was 'great', it did not actually reflect the truth. Moreover, he made it clear that this vehicle is a deadly threat to all Americans. O'Dowd said that over 100,000 Tesla drivers now operate their vehicles in full self-driving mode on public highways, placing children in many different areas at serious risk.
O'Dowd also noted that Tesla should ban self-driving cars until test results prove that vehicles "won't mow down children at crosswalks."
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On the other hand, Tesla has repeatedly responded to claims that its self-driving technology is too underdeveloped to ensure the safety of occupants or other road users. O'Dowd accused Tesla of being little more than a competitor. Because his company demonstrates that it specializes in making certain software used in automated driving systems. Also, O'Dowd says the Green Hills software doesn't make self-driving cars. In fact, he reiterates his insistence that it is not competing with Tesla with it. But he also admits that some auto companies use his company's software for certain components.
Musk stated that autopilot, a simpler version of the FSD, was not activated at the time of the crash following a deadly accident in Texas in 2021 that claimed two lives. Also at the company's shareholder meeting earlier this month, Musk said that Full Self-Driving has greatly improved. And he said he expects to make the software available to all owners who request it by the end of the year. But questions about its safety seem to continue to rise.
In June, NHTSA reported that it was expanding an investigation into 830,000 Tesla cars across all four existing model lines. The expansion came soon after analysis of a series of crashes revealed patterns in the car's performance and driver behavior. The extent to which Tesla's autopilot technology and associated systems "may enhance human factors or behavioral safety concerns by weakening the efficacy of driver monitoring" will be investigated by NHTSA.
It will determine if removing the forward radar sensor on some new Teslas causes vehicles to brake for no reason. A second NHTSA investigation is underway for the condition that causes such serious accidents, called ghost braking. The agency has had the chance to examine 30 accidents since 2016, 19 of which included Teslas with self-driving technology. At least 11 accidents in which Teslas collided with emergency vehicles were investigated by the NHTSA's Office of Flaws Investigation.
In fact, most such wrecks are not investigated by NHTSA. It is also noteworthy that in the nearly 400 crashes involving cars with driver assistance systems reported by automakers between July 2021 and last May, more Tesla was involved than all other manufacturers combined.
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