Police say they are searching for the driver of an abandoned Cybertruck, as if Tesla release of FSD isn’t what’s responsible for this motorcycle being hit-and-run.
Unified police are searching for the driver of a Tesla Cybertruck who hit a woman on a motorcycle at a high rate of speed and then sped away.
The victim, Kayla Watson, 26, was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Tanner Miller, a friend of Watson’s, was with her on another motorcycle at the intersection of 7800 South and State on Saturday about 1:40 a.m. when the incident occurred.
“We were sitting at a stop light, and it just came through and just hit her and took off,” Miller said. “It was terrifying actually.”
Watson was knocked to the ground from her Harley Davidson motorcycle. The right-side impact broke Watson’s right hand and broke and mangled her right leg.
“They didn’t even have the heart to stop at all. I just don’t know how someone could live with themselves after doing something like that,” Miller said.
Notably, Tesla FSD software is known to be dangerously blind to motorcyclists, repeatedly injuring or killing them without any explanation.
Tesla deserves far more serious scrutiny due to a string of alarming incidents involving pedestrians and motorcyclists. April 2024 a Tesla using the Autopilot feature collided with a motorcyclist, resulting in death. The driver admitted to being distracted by their phone . Another incident involved a pedestrian who was struck by a Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode. The many incidents underscore the urgent need for admitting Tesla has the industry’s worst autonomous technologies.
https://electrek.co/2024/07/31/tesla-full-self-driving-was-on-during-fatal-crash-with-motorcyclist-police-says/