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We’ve recently covered a Model Y that plowed into a police car, and not that long ago, the National Transportation Safety Board said that Autopilot suffers from
“a lack of appropriate safeguards.” Adding insult to injury, Tesla regulatory counsel Eric C. Williams told the California Department of Motor Vehicles that Autopilot and FSD are definitely not autonomous systems.
The bad publicity doesn’t end here, though. A Tesla with nobody in the driver’s seat has crashed into a tree and burst into flames in Spring, Texas, killing two people after failing to make a turn. One of the men killed was in the front passenger seat while the other was in the rear according to KHOU.
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They don t even require a safety driver behind the wheel.
There was a time when autonomous test cars required a safety driver behind the wheel to intervene if anything goes wrong. However, a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles has allowed companies such as GM s Cruise to test self-driving cars on public roads without a backup driver behind the driver.
Now, Chinese driving startup WeRide is the latest company to be added to that list. Backed by the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, WeRide is the seventh company to receive a driverless testing permit after AutoX, Baidu, Cruise, Nuro, Waymo, and Zoox.
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