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Frickenyesterday at 10:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

The original Mobileye EyeQ3 devices that Tesla began installing in their cars in 2013 had only a single forward facing camera. They were very simple devices, only intended to be used for lane keeping. Tesla hacked the devices and pushed them beyond their safe design constraints.

Then that guy got decapitated when his Model S drove under a semi-truck that was crossing the highway and Mobileye terminated the contract. Weirdly, the same fatal edge case occurred 2 more times at least on Tesla's newer hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_Autopilot_crashe...


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iknowstufftoday at 3:07 AM

They had radar too. No such incidents since going camera only fyi, even on the old autopilot product

nerdsniperyesterday at 10:45 PM

Thank you!