I'm not sure I like the focus on the driver here. I do think he was a fool for trusting the device.
It genuinely sounds like the autopilot failed to prevent a collision that, whether right or wrong, we would expect it to before broadly deploying these devices.
A semi is a very large and pretty reasonably defined visual mass that intersected with the path of the vehicle.
What did the autopilot do and when did it do it seems to be missing from this round of reports on this incident and thats pretty lame.
Edit- Notice there is no mention of a COLLISION warning being issued? Only nagging "hands on wheel".
It genuinely sounds like the autopilot failed to prevent a collision that, whether right or wrong, we would expect it to before broadly deploying these devices.
A semi is a very large and pretty reasonably defined visual mass that intersected with the path of the vehicle.
What did the autopilot do and when did it do it seems to be missing from this round of reports on this incident and thats pretty lame.
Edit- Notice there is no mention of a COLLISION warning being issued? Only nagging "hands on wheel".