Oh, you assume Tesla won't fight to the death to avoid releasing data recorder information. They will.
Unless it "absolves" Tesla.
Remember, this is the company that when someone died, put out actual PRESS RELEASES to say "Not the car's fault. In fact it warned him before the collision that he was inattentive."
They neglected to mention it triggered ONE steering wheel warning... FOURTEEN MINUTES before the collision.
Even your example is problematic. "FSD/AP isn't at fault/didn't cause the collision/near miss, because it wasn't engaged..."
... because the driver had to take emergency action to avert FSD/AP's behavior.
They got taken to task for that, when investigatory boards started asking "just how long before that collision was FSD/AP disengaged, and was it disengaged by hard manual braking, etc.?"
> Oh, you assume Tesla won't fight to the death to avoid releasing data recorder information. They will.
Last time this happened in a similar situation, the driver went to a third-party technician that was able to extract the log data, and it proved the same thing that Tesla was claiming. The driver was full-on pressing accelerator instead of the braking pedal.[0]
Raw log data is present in that link, so it isn't just another "he said one thing, they said another thing" situation. But the driver in question was indeed fighting to death claiming their innocence, even thought the initial accident was already raising eyebrows of most people familiar with autopilot.
It also helps that NHTSA has already investigated such claims before[1], so they looked into hundreds of cases that were claiming Autopilot suddenly accelerating and causing crashes. NHTSA discovered that not a single one happened due to autopilot, but due to the driver misapplying acceleration and braking pedal.
Unless it "absolves" Tesla.
Remember, this is the company that when someone died, put out actual PRESS RELEASES to say "Not the car's fault. In fact it warned him before the collision that he was inattentive."
They neglected to mention it triggered ONE steering wheel warning... FOURTEEN MINUTES before the collision.
Even your example is problematic. "FSD/AP isn't at fault/didn't cause the collision/near miss, because it wasn't engaged..."
... because the driver had to take emergency action to avert FSD/AP's behavior.
They got taken to task for that, when investigatory boards started asking "just how long before that collision was FSD/AP disengaged, and was it disengaged by hard manual braking, etc.?"