Very little information released so far about this Tesla driving blind into a pedestrian and killing them.
State police officials said Hernandez was attempting to cross the northbound lanes of Route 53, just south of Lake-Cook Road, about 5:30 p.m. when he was struck a gray Tesla.
Not to be confused with the red Tesla in Los Angeles that crashed into a tree a day earlier, this black one in Los Angeles didn’t see a car in front of it.
The Los Angeles Police Department said they received calls of the crash at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Centinela Avenue around 7:35 p.m. …the man identified as 53-year-old Karsten Gopinath was driving his Tesla heading westbound on Olympic Boulevard, at the time of the crash. Gopinath collided with another vehicle turning left onto Centinela Avenue, the LAPD said. […] At least six other vehicles were involved in the crash. Gopinath was pronounced dead at the scene.
Emergency responders already are strained by Tesla rapidly increasing dangerous crashes. A remotely centrally controlled political robot company potentially causing a huge chemical fire every day or worse. Can your town or city handle it?
Data scientists have been writing me to say there’s something notable in the Tesla crash reporting that has to do with poles. Presumably it’s because I’ve published warnings like this one:
Tesla in Deadly Pole Position: FSD Kills More People
Or this one:
Tesla in 2024 Still Crash Into Poles Like It’s 2018
One big clue for everyone surely was when Waymo publicly discussed software updates required to reduce the likelihood of robotic vehicles incorrectly assigning a “low hazard score” for poles before running into them.
This reminded me of when Tesla abruptly split with NVidia, who then publicly ranked Tesla as the industry worst in driverless hardware and software engineering. Or earlier, when Mobileye and Tesla abruptly split ways after Tesla management decisions were judged to be unsafe. Those two companies are the known best at what they do, giants leading the autonomous transportation market, and somehow their stark safety warnings about Tesla never saw an appropriate market reaction.
Proof of NVidia and Mobileye being right — warning how Tesla lacked the moral fiber required to be good at engineering — may be simply that we still have never seen any Waymo-like mea culpa for “veered” crashes into poles and trees.
Tesla managing to achieve low-quality electric car parts assembly, yet little else, continues to generate a shocking frequency of reports like this one today:
Two people had to be rescued from the inside of a burning Tesla in Sherman Oaks on Wednesday evening, according to firefighters. The crash happened at around 8:30 p.m. in the 14600 block of Moorpark Street, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Crews arrived to find the car engulfed in flames after it slammed into a tree on the side of the road.
It already was driving more than twice the speed limit when the Tesla accelerated into the back of a motorcyclist like someone punched a button for targeted assassination.
According to investigators, Dorfman was driving more than twice the 45-mph speed limit when his 2020 Tesla Model 3 collided with Ingrid Noon’s motorcycle on Aug. 26, 2022. […] Minutes before the wreck, both Dorfman and Noon were seen leaving the since-closed Brickyard Restaurant and Micro Brewery about 2.5 miles away.
He allegedly claimed first the motorcycle swerved and cut his Tesla off, which was easily disproven.
The evidence showed that when the motorcycle put on its bright red brake lights for a yellow traffic light in a 45mph zone, the Tesla rapidly accelerated forward over 100mph to kill Noon from behind.