Last night I was driving with beta engaged and hit a garbage can that was laying in the road. This isn't beta's fault directly as I couldn't see it either until the last second. I was travelling down the rural road, it was very dark, a car was sitting at the end of their driveway waiting to pull out (sadly they were just past where the garbage can was so their headlights didn't light up the road where the can was) so beta turned off the high-beams (which again is exactly was I was going to do and in fact disabled auto after it turned the high beams off to prevent it from flashing them) I was looking forward, hand on the wheel then here is this garbage can sitting in the middle of the lane. I slammed the brakes and swerved as much as I could making the tires screech. No warning/action from the Tesla until I was swerving out of the lane and it gave me a "take control immediately vehicle departing lane" warning. I smashed into the garbage can with the front right corner of my car, almost missed it but caught the corner and broke the front bumper fascia, the light in the lower right, and pushed back an ultra sonic sensor that's on the right side of the bumper. I am not mad at beta, a little disappointed that I had better vision and reaction time than the car (sadly still not good enough) I can't help but think, if my car's radar was still enabled this would probably of gone differently. The car maneuvered really well and stayed controllable so I was impressed with how well it handled sadly my reaction time was just a tenth of a second too late and my car didn't seem to react at all.
