>The first person to die in a U.S. crash involving a car in self-driving mode was the tech-savvy 40-year-old owner of a Tesla Model S who nicknamed his car "Tessy" and praised its sophisticated "Autopilot" system.
>Joshua D. Brown, of Canton, Ohio, died in the May 7 crash in Williston, Florida, when his car's cameras failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer rig from a brightly lit sky and didn't automatically activate its brakes, according to government records and a Tesla statement issued Thursday.
>Frank Baressi, 62, the driver of the tractor-trailer and owner of Okemah Express LLC, said the Tesla driver was "playing Harry Potter on the TV screen" and driving so quickly that "he went so fast through my trailer I didn't see him."
>"It was still playing when he died and snapped a telephone pole a quarter mile down the road," Baressi said in an in an interview from his home in Palm Harbor, Florida. He acknowledged he couldn't see the movie, only heard it.
>Passenger in self-driving car dies while watching Harry Potter
Anthony Kelly
You still have to watch the fucking road.
Ian Rodriguez
>It was still playing when he died Fucking kek.
Colton Jones
this
Gavin Long
>40 year old watching Harry Potter
he deserved to die
Michael Long
HOWEVER
Jack Thomas
well, at least it's not as bad as that canadian? european? that thought that cruise control meant that the vehicle would drive itself so they got up and went to the back of their truck? mobile home? to make coffee.
Jordan Watson
I wonder if the last thing he heard was HOWEVER
Sebastian Perry
Jesus what a fucking cuck. I don't drive anything that isn't carbureted. Fucking cuck microsoft doesn't know carbureted is a word and keeps underlining it. Fuck is this country coming to?
John Lee
New technology isn't perfect.
More news at 11.
Luke Davis
I would make a joke with some harry potter spell but I havent bothered to watch those movies.
Jordan Collins
Operational hazards. This guy should have been paying attention to the road, particularly around vehicles. If it's an empty road that's different.
Anthony Lewis
>who nicknamed his car "Tessy"
why is this relevent to the news story?
Juan Rivera
This. What a fucking retard completely relying on new auto-pilot technology. You're not even supposed to let your guard down in a plane with the auto-pilot activated.
Jaxson Hall
I knew it was a britcuck pushing the HOWEVER meme
Easton Reyes
He was a navy seal and founded his own company. I wouldn't be quick to believe the Harry Potter claim
Aiden Richardson
Jealous you've never had a nickname, eh?
Bentley Reed
The article says that he could only hear the movie, his Tesla model couldn't play videos.
Brayden Allen
>tech-savvy Anybody tech savvy should appreciate how easily a computer system can fail due to unforeseen circumstances
Matthew Stewart
>one less liberal. Natural selection at its best. I am just glad no one else got hurt due to it's stupidity.
Henry Jenkins
kek you mean Ron Burgundy from the movie: Anchorman 2?
Gabriel Lee
To make him sound like more of a faggot and harm Tesla's sales more.
Tyler Turner
Good, this tech is just one more way for the government to know literally everything and control everything we do
Autonomous cars will become driven by central computers once there re enough on the road, maybe the incentive will be they can drive faster in a special lane just for them, but it's going to be centralized at some point
Isaac Williams
Or it was broken after the crash and he could only hear it.
Carson Gutierrez
>cameras failed to distinguish the white side of a turning tractor-trailer rig from a brightly lit sky
I don't think they should be calling any driving software "autonomous" if it only relies on visible light.
Don't the google cars have radar and shit?
Aiden King
$5 says the car is sentient. Fuck.
William Adams
>Tesla Motors Inc. said it is not possible to watch videos on the Model S touch screen.
Andrew Collins
>google and Tesla are the same company and use the same sensors in their cars
Nicholas White
Oh shit, did the Trump curse just strike again?
Noah Wright
Are you browsing on internet explorer? What the fuck?
Angel Richardson
I have no idea but my guess is visible light is probably less susceptible to noisy data
Brayden Perry
>ITT: Basement NEETs who can't afford a Tesla try to make fun of someone successful who could.
Jackson Gonzalez
Yep I only buy Ford Broncos as my vehicles, fuck emissions and liberals, although my latest Bronco is EFI
Jonathan Baker
its not a curse, its meme magic.
how is the ultimate cuck dying from his own hubris not meme magic?
Evan Campbell
Google cars never crashed, it had a flawless history and this include fucked up roads in other countries.
Brody Sullivan
>dead >successful
Christian Bell
Pretty sure he's talking about a Darwin Awards case
Noah Bailey
yes but it was a Tesla car that failed here.
Christian Johnson
I'm still breathing
Zachary Ortiz
kek
Sebastian Lopez
Welp, that just pushed back self-driving cars in the US for another 10 years at least. Good job, Elon Musk, you fucking faggot.
I should buy TSLA puts tomorrow.
Benjamin Reed
To be fair, tesla's "autopilot" is more like glorified cruise control than anything else. Only allows you to stay in one lane matching the speed of the car in front of you. Lane changes only one lane if and only if turn signal is engaged. It's not meant for morons to watch movies at the wheel, but rather to navigate slow-moving or light traffic. Dumbass had it coming.
That being said, marketing the tech as "autopilot" is definitely not the best idea, and is probably going to end up in a pretty sizeable settlement.
Juan Turner
Silly user, you can't be a successful businessman when you're a charred corpse.
Mason Green
No it didn't, you're an idiot.
However there will be a whole new set of ridiculous safety standards set.
Lincoln Jenkins
At least I'm not dead.
Owen Moore
I'm making fun of him because he's dead and I'm alive.
Christopher Nelson
Wheezing doesn't count as breathing you 300 pound basement dweller.
Caleb Evans
>'Driving' Tesla on autopilot >Jacking off to Emma Watson >"Isn't life great?" poor sod
Cameron Wood
>trusting a computer to control a two-ton death box going 60 mph
I don't trust driverless cars and likely never will.
The bad part is that this could lead to a ban on self driving cars. He should have known not to put full trust in technology this new. These things need to be on the road for the next 10 years without much incident before I trust them.
Carson Bailey
>itt musk worshippers get butthurt about the piss tesla receives
Henry Morales
>this is actually what muggles believe
Brandon Lopez
>Florida
Austin Brooks
>tech-savvy > needlessly puts life in hands of new technology where one error can lead to any number of fatal conclusions
Oh journalism
Jason Ortiz
>implying that a white richfag with a self drive car named "tessy" is getting more action than literally anyone on this planet >died watching mother fucking Harry Potter
Dude was bluer than the fucking ocean down there man, and death was a sweet release
Brandon Bailey
>nicknames it 'tessy' >is a tech horny faggot >praises the sophistication of the car >is a manchild watching harry potter >killed by the thing he praised and nicknamed because of faulty design
The irony has many layers here.
Justin Perez
>I will trust a machine driving before I trust another Human driving. good thing most of us can drive ourselves.
Blake Jones
>banning this >bad
Jace Cox
My wife's making me dinner so I can't really comment.
>feelings hurt in 3... 2...
Daniel Bell
>hey don't those google cars have better tech? >LOL RETARD DO U THINK THEYRE THE SAME nice logical fallacy asshat
Owen Howard
>When hipsters get BTFO by technology
Colton Anderson
>40 years old >no wife, no kids >just a shitty overpriced car >dies while watching a movie based on a children's book (which came out while he was still an adult)
Sad. Should have gotten married instead.
Henry Morales
Could someone explain to me how this wasn't the trailers fault? The Tesla had the right of way, assuming it wasn't changing lanes or anything.
Carson Cook
I could buy one new, cash upfront. Have no desire to own one.
Might get a Chevy Volt one day. I can plug in for free at work. I'd buy gas about twice a year.
Christopher Robinson
the car thought the truck was sky.
Nathan Howard
A human would have stopped immediately.
Adam Thomas
"get in user-kun lets go for a drive..."
Carter Sullivan
Success doesn't come with you into the grave user.
He died watching a cheesy kids movie in a car that he probably thought was a better substitute for a wife than a body pillow.
Asher Robinson
I'm Germany? Or you mean people? Because I'm constantly seeing retards driving around me. We could stand to benefit from a stoplight automation where all vehicles at a light will automatically lift off the brake and start acceleration at exactly the same time instead of the garbage we have now where you have to wait for everyone in front of you to wait for everyone in front of them to start accelerating and get far enough away before they start and then before you start. I'm tired of waiting for literal minutes at a green light because of this shit.
Cameron Ortiz
I'm curious, could you explain to me how a Volt appeals to you but a Tesla doesn't...?
Jason Powell
That was a hoax. An it was still an american, driving a winnebago.
David Scott
>sheered off the top of the car >kept driving until it hit a telephone pole
Even when you give out the car keeps going!
James Hall
amen
Luke Murphy
...
Cooper Brown
...
Aiden Bailey
> Automobilus Collisiono!
Colton Perez
AHM A WOT?
Sebastian Young
>mfw I built this car in garrysmod 1000 props
Isaiah Jones
>Chevy >vs some hipster faggot's startup
It's like you don't even appreciate automobiles senpai
Isaac Myers
Yeah reality check: that's not gunna happen.
Justin Martin
How do we know that he wasn't married though? I mean a lot of tech guys have hot trophy wives and shit.
Jace Diaz
can you point to what fallacy I made? the mods keep a sticky if you need help
