There’s been a lawsuit filed against Tesla Motors in California, alleging that a Tesla car with Autopilot engaged killed a pedestrian two years ago—perhaps the first pedestrian fatality directly linkable to a Tesla running on Autopilot. In a long analysis in “Forbes”,
AI and machine learning expert Lance Eliot describes the implications, interpretations, and potential ripple effects of this lawsuit (and philosophy and messaging not only of Tesla but of the automaker’s notoriously scornful CEO Elon Musk) on AD and AV development beyond Tesla’s own sphere.
Among other aspects, Eliot looks at the upshot of Musk’s disdain for lidar in ADAS and AVs, particularly with regard to incidents like the alleged one at the centre of the lawsuit.