In a few days two harsh news about autonomous cars with fatal outcomes in both cases, shook the good pace that they had during these years in terms of accidents. Within a few days of each other, two autonomous car accidents took the lives of two people, in the first case a woman who was crossing a place "not indicated and duly marked" was run over by an Uber car, the second and more recent the one of an accident of a Tesla due to a fault with the autopilot. The latter is still being investigated today, but A video shows that the system continues to fail at exactly the same point in which the Apple engineer lost his life.
This is the video showing that the Tesla keeps failing at the same point of the fateful accident:
From what we see in this video the failure is evident and it is not noticed with any sound or similar that the driver grasps the steering wheel, it just spins when it goes straight. The driver himself warned with several reports the problem at that point and that is that as you can see in the video the road is divided with a median right in the middle and the Tesla autopilot seems to "lose" a little. In any case, Tesla warns actively and passively that it is a safe system, but the driver has to be aware of the road even if the system works perfectly.
Undoubtedly the Tesla Model X accident on March 23 It seems that heeding the deceased's notices could have been avoided. On the other hand, it is also true that now it is easy to talk or conjecture about whether or not this accident could have been avoided, but we hope that this problem will be corrected as soon as possible or at least the drivers who circulate on Highway 101 and reach the divide with the 85 with these Tesla be vigilant so that it does not happen again. The safety in these cars is more than evident and we are sure that they are specific cases so you do not have to be afraid of these systems, you simply have to be careful and use them responsibly.