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I have an older Teala with AP, and I dont understand how this is possible...
You can't engage it on your driveway. It'll say its unavailable. You gotta be moving a bit first on a roadway.
If he was on the roadway and turning into his driveway, AP cant make turns, so thats not possible.
He could have had traffic aware cruise control on, and auto steer off so he could steer it, but then he's the one who drove it into the garage.
Edit: maybe a cul du sac where he's at the end and itd drive straight up, but he wouldn't have been able to turn onto it, which means he would have had to turn it on just for the small street?
Edit: and if they story is it went off the road into the garage on its own with a sudden turn... check that angle out. Its not like it came in on a shallow angle veering off the road, its almost 90 degrees to the garage from a short driveway...
The article suggests it wasn't the driver's garage. The driver's story seems to be "It was driving itself happily and then went mad and crashed into this random person's garage!".
It's down to the crash investigators to find out whether that's the truth, or the driver crashed it themselves and then just blamed the AP.
Ya i better understood that just a few moments ago. The angle it went into the house seems pretty suspicious still. Thats a pretty sharp turn vs if it tried to dodge an imaginary deer for example.
FSD is not capable of dodging a deer - it just brakes.
If the deer darts in front at the last second it will try to swerve around it, but maybe not too aggressively. Similar to if a car intrudes in your lane. But ya, if its standing in the road in front of you it will just brake.
Edit: Looks like someone did a video of it a couple days ago of swerving to avoid an inflatable dummy someone throws at it, so this is what I'd expect for a deer that jumps in front of it. Some pretty good speed reactions in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KRr9Of46MM
https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1u69k79/fsd_reaction_time_testing_45_mph/
AP probably disabled itself in the middle of a bend in the road...
As the article states, they may have meant FSD. Which people very frequently call Autopilot.