speed, acceleration, surrounding traffic and
other factors.
In the Culver City crash, the larger vehicle ahead
of the Tesla changed lanes three to four seconds
before the crash, revealing the parked fire truck,
the NTSB said.
“The system was unable to immediately
detect the hazard and accelerated the Tesla
toward the stationary truck,” the report said.
The system did spot the firetruck and issued a
collision warning to the driver just under a half-
second before impact — too late for a driver to
act, the agency wrote.
The NTSB found that a stationary vehicle in
the Tesla’s field of view is a challenge for the
system to assess a threat and brake. It says that
detection of stationary objects is challenging for
all manufacturers of driver-assist systems.
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