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On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:16:32 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
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On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:17:18 PM UTC-4, wrote:
A couple guys must have been testing Tesla's Auto Pilot.
http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/tesla/fatal-texas-tesla-crash-714503
The car hit a tree at high speed. The driver's seat was empty.

There was a local incident here that surprised me. A woman and her young
daughter were startled in the parking lot of a small high-end grocery
store
when a Tesla came very close to them. There was no driver nor anyone
visible. Looks like someone about to leave the store summoned the car
to pick them up. I knew that was possible, I knew that they had been
testing
driverless cars in some cities, but I thought so far they always had a
person
in the car. I had no idea that with a production Tesla you could do this.
I would have been totally surprised if I saw it happen to me. And a car
owner, I for sure would not have done this unless I could watch what the
car was doing.

That just sounds ridiculous. It means I could steal a Tesla and
have it dropped off at the fence from the comfort of my
LaZboy, never actually seeing the car, by hacking the software.

Odd that no one has reported their Tesla stolen that way.

And even you should realise that they would be able
to track where it went and where it is right now.

I am really surprised the autopilot even works without
the weight of the driver in the driver's seat.