He thinks his Tesla is autonomous… and crashes it into a concrete wall!

By insisting on the imminent arrival of fully autonomous driving in its creations, Tesla seems to confuse some of its customers.

A Tesla crashed at full speed into a barrier bordering a construction site on a highway in the Chinese province of Jiangxi. In the video, captured by a surveillance camera, the car is seen violently hitting a concrete wall and swerving before coming to a stop completely destroyed. The driver was not injured, but the violence of the impact and especially the car’s total lack of response are perplexing… In the case of a “regular” car, human error would be beyond doubt, but this is a Tesla, which complicates matters.

The driver told local media that at the time of the accident, the vehicle was in “autopilot” mode and had not reacted in time to the warning signs. This is where the story gets interesting, as Tesla vehicles do not yet support the fully autonomous driving (FSD) function in China!

The driver had simply engaged the Autopilot system, which provides level 2 assistance, which is by no means equivalent to full automation, far from it! In this mode, human supervision remains mandatory, and the vehicle can only identify legal traffic signs. However, a construction site like the one shown in the video is certainly not yet integrated into the car’s artificial intelligence. Beyond the intriguing footage, this case exposes the devilish complexity of FSD autonomous driving that Tesla aims to implement as quickly as possible. A human can identify an unexpected obstacle and adjust their driving accordingly, even when it is not referenced in any driving manual. Is it possible to do the same with artificial intelligence? Tesla thinks so.

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