October 10, 2016

German report calls Tesla's Autopilot a "hazard"

A Tesla Model S P85d car is displayed at the 16th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in Shanghai on April 20, 2015. Global car makers showed off hundreds of vehicles in China's commercial hub Shanghai on April 20, as the world's biggest auto market continues to attract despite a sharp deceleration in sales growth. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) A new study from Germany's Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) found that the autopilot feature of the Tesla Model S constitutes a "considerable traffic hazard," according to a report in Der Spiegel. Unsurprisingly, Tesla CEO Elon Musk doesn't agree and today said in a tweet that those reports were "not actually based on science," and repeated… Read More

Source: TechCrunch