Why Teslas keep striking parked firetrucks and police cars. In the opinion of an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University, not according to Tesla themselves.

"According to the NHTSA, most of these incidents occurred after dark while the first-responder vehicles were flashing lights and had flares and flashing arrow boards around them. Do you think these lights could confuse the cameras?"

"I’m sure that’s part of the problem. When the lights are spinning and flashing, looking at it from the camera image, these are just pixels, meaning that they have numbers, and the numbers basically go up and down, up and down in some regions, when the light flashes. Unless the training phase has been given those images and that kind of modality, it could throw the pattern matching off."

The CMU professor goes on to say Telsa should use radar or Lidar, but they're not going to do that.

Why Teslas Keep Striking Parked Firetrucks and Police Cars

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