{"id":28920,"date":"2016-08-14T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T19:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/another-tesla-autopilot-crash-this-time-in-china"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:25:07","slug":"another-tesla-autopilot-crash-this-time-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/another-tesla-autopilot-crash-this-time-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Another Tesla Autopilot Crash, This Time in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/another-tesla-autopilot-crash-this-time-in-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One more of these; we may see government step in at the consumer\u2019s urging.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nobody was killed or even injured. But a minor accident involving a Tesla Model S running on Autopilot in China is again raising questions about exactly how the feature works.<\/p>\n<p>The electric car company said Wednesday that it is investigating the Aug. 2 incident. The driver\u2019s Tesla sideswiped a Volkswagen that was parked halfway in the lane of a busy Beijing highway. The company said Autopilot was engaged and the driver was not holding the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>But the driver, Luo Zhen, claimed he was misled by Tesla. He told the Reuters news agency that Tesla salespeople described Autopilot as a \u201cself-driving\u201d system. On a test drive, he said \u201cthe demonstrator took his hands off the steering wheel and took his feet off the accelerator and the brake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-tech-today.com\/news\/Tesla-Autopilot-Crash-in-China\/story.xhtml?story_id=031002B3V5OL\">http:\/\/www.sci-tech-today.com\/news\/Tesla-Autopilot-Crash-in-...1002B3V5OL<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more of these; we may see government step in at the consumer\u2019s urging. Nobody was killed or even injured. But a minor accident involving a Tesla Model S running on Autopilot in China is again raising questions about exactly how the feature works. The electric car company said Wednesday that it is investigating the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66585,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920\/revisions\/66585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}