{"id":90931,"date":"2019-05-18T03:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/tesla-driver-killed-after-smashing-into-truck-had-just-enabled-autopilot-us-crash-watchdog"},"modified":"2019-05-18T03:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T10:02:23","slug":"tesla-driver-killed-after-smashing-into-truck-had-just-enabled-autopilot-us-crash-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/tesla-driver-killed-after-smashing-into-truck-had-just-enabled-autopilot-us-crash-watchdog","title":{"rendered":"Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot \u2013 US crash watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-driver-killed-after-smashing-into-truck-had-just-enabled-autopilot-us-crash-watchdog.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A.I. is yet to prove the safety of self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cShortly following the accident, we informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board that the vehicle\u2019s logs showed that Autopilot was first engaged by the driver just 10 seconds prior to the accident, and then the driver immediately removed his hands from the wheel,\u201d a Tesla spokesperson told <i>The Register<\/i> in an emailed statement. \u201cAutopilot had not been used at any other time during that drive. We are deeply saddened by this accident and our thoughts are with everyone affected by this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/05\/17\/tesla_autopilot_crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.I. is yet to prove the safety of self-driving cars. \u201cShortly following the accident, we informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board that the vehicle\u2019s logs showed that Autopilot was first engaged by the driver just 10 seconds prior to the accident, and then the driver immediately removed his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90931","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}