Self-operating shuttle bus crashes after Las Vegas launch (All Things Self Driving)

Tesla blames driver in last month’s fatal crash with Autopilot engaged

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/0...as-well-aware-that-autopilot-was-not-perfect/

 

Federal officials boot Tesla from crash investigation

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/federal-officials-boot-tesla-from-crash-investigation/

 

"Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down ...

Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot chief Jim Keller has left the company, the latest in a rash of executive departures at the electric-car maker led by Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk.

Keller, who joined the auto maker two years ago and has a background in chip development, had his last day as a Tesla vice president on Tuesday, the company said in a statement. He’s going back to semiconductor engineering, Tesla said..."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...lot-vice-president-keller-is-leaving-carmaker

 

"Waymo self-driving minivan involved in crash in Arizona

[Waymo is the self-driving car initiative from Google's parent company Alphabet.]

A self-driving vehicle operated by Waymo was involved in a crash in Chandler, Arizona, on Friday afternoon, according to local news stations. Images of the crash scene showed a Waymo minivan with its side caved in and another vehicle with a smashed front end. There were minor injuries reported at the scene.

Chandler police said the Waymo van was in autonomous mode with an occupant behind the wheel at the time of the crash,.."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/4/17320936/waymo-self-driving-car-crash-arizona

"...Authorities say the crash happened Friday afternoon when a Honda sedan swerved to avoid hitting another car. As a result, they said, the Honda went into opposing traffic lanes and hit the Waymo car..."

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-waymo-crash-20180504-story.html

Pic:

https://twitter.com/mattjaffee/status/992489072957440001/photo/1

 

iNSANITY

Road systems with families-people-children in proximity is a horrible experiment.

We seem to be witnessing a 21st century design on the playing with the lives with seemingly inventive motivations but every bit as dangerous as pre-WW2 era experiments.

 

"Police: Sedan that collided with Waymo vehicle ran red light [and Waymo vehicle was in manual mode]


A driver whose sedan collided with a self-driving vehicle owned by Waymo has been cited for running a red light, police in a Phoenix suburb said Saturday.

Chandler Police Department spokesman Seth Tyler said that the Waymo-owned Chrysler minivan was in manual mode and slowing for the red light when the collision occurred Friday.

Police had said initially that the Waymo minivan was in autonomous mode with a person in the driver's seat..."

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-police-sedan-collided-waymo-vehicle.html

 

"Uber autonomous software reportedly set to ignore pedestrian

Uber has determined that the Arizona crash that resulted in a pedestrian fatality in March was likely because its self-driving car's software was tuned not to react to certain road objects,...

https://www.axios.com/uber-autonomo...ath-3fa57b71-5935-478a-bb5c-6b725039e55a.html

"...The car’s sensors detected the pedestrian, who was crossing the street with a bicycle, but Uber’s software decided it didn’t need to react right away. That’s a result of how the software was tuned. Like other autonomous vehicle systems, Uber’s software has the ability to ignore “false positives,” or objects in its path that wouldn’t actually be a problem for the vehicle, such as a plastic bag floating over a road. In this case, Uber executives believe the company’s system was tuned so that it reacted less to such objects. But the tuning went too far, and the car didn’t react fast enough..."

https://www.theinformation.com/arti...e-set-to-ignore-objects-on-road?shared=6c88fd

 

Tesla’s “primary technical contact” with the feds just left for Waymo

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/0...al-contact-with-the-feds-just-left-for-waymo/

 

"Tesla Bursts Into Flames After “Violent Crash” In Switzerland, Killing Driver Trapped Inside...

The Fire department explains that “the violent impact of Lithium Ion Batteries could probably have caused a phenomenon called “thermal runaway”, i.e, a rapid and unstoppable increase in temperature.“...

It’s unclear if the car had its autopilot engaged at the moment of the crash,.."

https://newzsentinel.com/2018/05/14...in-switzerland-killing-driver-trapped-inside/

 

"Tesla Model S Driver Says Autopilot Was On Before Crash Into Firetruck: Police

The owner of a Tesla Model S that crashed into a parked firetruck in Utah last Friday said she had the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system engaged at the time of the incident, police said Monday...."

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-driver-says-autopilot-was-on-before-crash-1826022381

 

Embark CEO says autonomous driving is the only way we’ll get to zero fatalities
May 14, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/e...-is-the-only-way-well-get-to-zero-fatalities/