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Sky News and the BBC reported on the 17th (local time) that a man in his twenties who was drowsy in a car running at 150 km / h with Tesla’s driver assistance system on in Canada was brought to trial. . did. Autopilot is the second stage of autonomous driving, where the driver must hold the steering wheel and prepare to respond to an unexpected situation.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police received a report in July that there was a Tesla S vehicle speeding on a highway near the Ponoca, Alberta area. The front seats of this vehicle are said to have been fully reclined. Both the driver and the passengers fell asleep.
The Tesla vehicle sped from 140 km / h to 150 km / h when police pursued it with a patrol car and turned on the hazard lights. Most roads in Canada are known to limit the maximum speed to 110 km / h.
“It seemed like no one was in the car, but I suddenly accelerated,” Sgt. Turnbull, the deputy sergeant who cracked down on the vehicle, said in an interview with CBC News Canada. He said: “I have worked in traffic control for most of my 23 years as a police officer, but I lost my words (seeing this scene). I have never seen anything like it before.”
Police sentenced one driver, a 20-year-old man from British Columbia, to a 24-hour license suspension and charged with speeding and reckless driving. A local police officer said, “(Autopilot) is a safety device installed to prevent driver errors, but it is only an auxiliary means.” “Since this function is not completely autonomous, the driver remains responsible for driving.” .
◇ US Attorney’s Office, “Drivers Are Liable” for Life Accidents During Autonomous Driving
The US attorney’s office recently ruled that the driver, not the autonomous driving system, should be responsible for the accident of the world’s first pedestrian fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle. On the 27th of last month, Rafael Vásquez, 46, who was in the driver’s seat during the ‘Uber autonomous vehicle fatality’ was charged with negligence. Uber, who developed and tested the autonomous driving system, said there was no criminal liability.
The fatal accident took place on March 18, 2018 at 10 p.m. at an intersection in downtown Tempe, a city in south-central Arizona. A Volvo XC90-based autonomous car being tested at Uber, an American shared taxi company, killed a pedestrian while dragging a bicycle. At the time, the driver appeared to be watching a live broadcast on a mobile phone.
District Attorney Allister Adele said of the motive for the charge: “If the driver is sitting in the driver’s seat, he is responsible for controlling and driving the vehicle safely. Even if it is an autonomous vehicle, if you sit in the driver’s seat, you cannot avoid liability for an accident. The trial in this case is scheduled for February 11 next year. The impact of the test results on the global autonomous driving industry is expected to be great.
Young Americans were also criticized for posting a video of a drinking party with Tesla’s autopilot on and running at a speed of nearly 100 km / h on the highway with an empty driver’s seat. According to TMZ and Daily Mail, four American men recently took a video of driving on the highway with the autopilot function turned on while driving an electric Tesla and posted it on TikTok. The title of the video they posted was “When Your Car Drives Better Than You”.
In this regard, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said: “We want the autonomous vehicle to be fully autonomous, but the autopilot function is still at the stage where the driver has to sit in the driver’s seat and prepare for it. control the vehicle “.
