With the arrest of Micheal Buttler, more info is coming out about the crash.
1. Butler was awake, coherent and stable with no serious injuries at the hospital after the crash. Despite this, he told officers he “remembers nothing before the crash” 🤔
2. Data from the vehicle shows that the Tesla was operating in self-driving mode and approaching a stop sign. The car’s self-driving software has already started slowing for the stop sign. The driver then overruled the system’s decision to slow down by pressing the accelerator pedal, putting control of the car in the hands of the driver rather than the car’s AI.
3. The accelerator pedal was pressed, increased to 67% pressed, and then increased to 100% pressed
4. Data from the car shows the brake pedal was never pushed to stop the car.
5. No data indicated that the driver tried to turn away from the crash
6. Officers found Google search history on his phone for search terms such as “FSD not aggressive enough” and “FSD too timid for city driving”.
7. The affiant concludes Butler’s alleged conduct showed “extreme frustration” with the Tesla’s FSD not driving aggressively enough — essentially being too safe — that he overrode it by pressing the accelerator, and that he caused the death of Martha Avila by “failing to brake, failing to control speed, driving off the road, driving towards a house, and driving into and through a house.”
@farzyness@Gfilche@Tesla@robotaxi This was before the certainty of FSD working though. Soon, you will be able to talk to ur car with natural language, whats the point of steering wheel and pedal?
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