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Tesla cars can drive with no one in the driver’s seat, Consumer Reports says
Consumer Reports engineers were able to operate a Tesla vehicle without anyone in the driver’s seat, and the system failed to send out a warning or indicate that the driver’s seat …
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Consumer Reports engineers were able to operate a Tesla vehicle without anyone in the driver’s seat, and the system failed to send out a warning or indicate that the driver’s seat was empty, the magazine said Thursday.
The engineers tested Tesla Model Y this week as investigators probe an accident where two men died after their Tesla Model S, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree on Saturday night north of Houston.
Over several trips across half-mile closed test track, the Model Y automatically steered along painted lane lines, the magazine said.
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My concern is drivers will become either bored or complacent with this technology, with inevitable results. No machine is perfect, let alone computers that drive these vehicles. (Every computer I have ever owned has failed, with a couple of exceptions.