Here’s a truly sad conclusion to a story about Tesla Autopilot running over child mannequins, even behind a wall, failing a simple safety test that LiDAR-enabled cars pass with ease.

An Electrek journalist had clearly reported what we’ve all seen. Then the TSLA attack dogs started coming for him to argue that Autopilot wasn’t enabled. So, as any journalist would, he looked more carefully and realized… Autopilot had fraudulently disengaged itself. Ooops.

The funny thing is that I missed that Autopilot disengaged at the last second, but the attacks from Tesla investors pointed it out and actually exposed video evidence of a shady practice from Tesla that has been reported in the past.

In NHTSA’s investigation of Tesla vehicles on Autopilot crashing into emergency vehicles on the highway, the safety agency found that Autopilot would disengage within less than one second prior to impact on average in the crashes that it was investigating…

This would suggest that the ADAS system detected the collision but too late and disengaged the system instead of applying the brakes. Now, it looks like the Rober video has caught this behavior on camera.

Busted.