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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
(I suspect) the programmers didn't take into account a big rig crossing in front of it in such a way that the road looked clear.
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I can't come up with an analogy that accurately describes how astronomically implausible that scenario is.
Hundreds of people spent hundreds of thousands of man-hours on this system with countless meetings and brainstorming sessions coming up with every scenario. The disclaimers are there for a reason, it's because the system has limitations. If those limitations were deemed an inappropriate risk
(combined with the clear disclaimers that the driver must still be engaged in operating the 2 ton high speed projectile we call a car) it never would have been put in the hands of users.
Get the right 10 people in a room with access to their data and they can tell you every detail of that system from the solder used on wire J234 to the bitrate of processor V1 to the field of view of each sensor to the torque used on the fasteners. I'd bet my bottom dollar Tesla knew where the system fell short within a week of hearing about the accident and had a report on Musk's desk as they prepared to inform the NHTSA.
I've seen people figure out what's wrong with spaceships >20,000 miles away with only basic telemetry. I'm not a fan of Musk, but I've met people that work for him, don't sell them short.