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by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Apr 28, 2021 - 03:57 PM
Despite Elon Musk s insistence last week that data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled during the fatal April 17 wreck that killed two men in a Tesla, the company admitted on Monday that one of Autopilot s features was active during the crash, according to CNN.
On Monday s conference call, Lars Moravy, the company s Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, responded to a question about the wreck, noting that while Autosteer was not active, the car s adaptive cruise control was: In that vein, we did a study with them over the past week to understand what happened in that particular crash and what we have learned from that effort was that Autosteer did not and could not engage on the road condition that as it was designed.
One of Autopilot s features was active in fatal Tesla crash
Police said no one was in the driver s seat at the time of the crash.
Lars Moravy, Tesla s vice president of vehicle engineering, said on the company s earnings call Monday that Tesla s adaptive cruise control was engaged and accelerated to 30 mph before the car crashed.
Wreckage of the heavily burned Tesla electric car that crashed in Texas killing two people.(Nine)
Autopilot is a suite of driver assistance features, including traffic-aware cruise control and Autosteer, according to Tesla s website. Traffic-aware cruise control matches the speed of the car to surrounding traffic, while Autosteer assists in steering in clearly marked lanes, according to Tesla s website.