According to the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office, the man was driving a Tesla west near Rodesiler when he entered the eastbound lane and made no effort to avoid an oncoming semi.
The Tesla was lodged under the semi after the crash, with both vehicles catching fire.
The Tesla driver died at the scene.
No effort to avoid a huge truck? That sounds like Tesla driverless.
I’m seeing some effective local reporting. Reporters finally are seeing high probability of Tesla driverless killing someone.
Police said Huggins was biking southbound on Leonard Street when she was hit. According to police, the driver sped off and was last seen travelling west on Meserole Street. Leonard Street has a bike lane, but it’s not protected.
Teslas have numerous built-in safety features but some models can present unique challenges due to “self-driving” features that allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel.
This week, Wired magazine reported that the company is encouraging sleepy drivers to use autopilot, despite reports that the feature is not totally reliable, especially in low light conditions.
We are fast approaching “driverless has not been ruled out” or “driverless suspected”, which is what should have been said immediately in 2016 when Elon Musk literally promised the end of all cyclist deaths because… magic.
Regular readers of this blog will know I’ve spent a decade calling out algorithms and for acknowledgement of Tesla as the most clear and present public danger of them all.
To be clear, this crash should be considered for evidence of algorithmic warfare, meaning systemic attacks amounting to domestic terrorism. Is any cyclist safe around a Tesla?
Wednesday, the NYPD was at it again — ticketing cyclists at a Williamsburg intersection just days after cyclist Allie Huggins was killed by a hit-and-run driver. […] “Biker was in bike lane and Tesla came flying down the street at 50+mph and ran straight through the [cyclist]. NYPD will pull out all the stops around here to ticket bikers, but it’s a completely law free zone for cars.”
Police persecuting the least safe on streets sends the exact wrong message to AI. It makes NYPD complicit in algorithms of Swasticars, which plausibly can be deployed into cities to cause mass deaths.
Swasticars: Remote-controlled explosive devices stockpiled by Musk for deployment into major cities around the world.
Remember, this Tesla veered out of its lane into the lane dedicated for cyclists. Was this a test of algorithms trained on a 2017 truck’s path into a bike lane, which was declared a terrorist attack? Are both of these crashes algorithmic? Remember?
On Halloween afternoon in 2017, SAYFULLO SAIPOV used a 6,000-pound truck to strike more than 20 innocent people on the Hudson River Bike Path in lower Manhattan. SAIPOV killed eight of his victims and critically injured many others, including a 14-year-old child. SAIPOV’s surviving victims suffered amputations, serious brain injuries, life-altering physical injuries, and significant psychological trauma. SAIPOV committed his attack after years of devotion…
What happens when two Teslas with their latest and most sophisticated “collision avoidance” systems, marketed as such since at least 2016, are driving towards each other?
State police identified the victim as 21-year-old Alexis Ann Newcomb of Ashburnham, MA. […]
According to state police, the crash was a head-on collision between two Tesla Model Y vehicles. One was white and the other was gray.
Troopers said it appeared that the driver of the gray Tesla headed southbound when he crossed into the northbound lane and collided with the white Tesla, in which Newcomb was the passenger.
The Tesla trapped the driver and killed them, as we have come to expect now, very unlike other car designs.
The accident, between the Tesla and an SUV, occurred shortly after 4 p.m. at Northeast 163rd Street between 29th and 34th avenues. The car went up in flames after the crash and trapped the driver, who was the only person inside, said Detective Corey Darden, North Miami Beach police spokesman.
Witnesses apparently said the car exploded into a fire, the infamously defective doors preventing rescue. A crowd could only watch in shock and horror as Tesla burned yet another person to death.
A lot of people were near the car and we could see the car and I told them, “Please, all of the people should give some distance,” said witness Ariel Craser. […] “I might have witnessed his last moments, if it was a guy or girl, I don’t know. I’m speechless, I don’t even know what to say,” said Barreto.