AnxietyRanger
Well-Known Member
Happily.
Here is a dictionary definition of predicted: "Say or estimate that (a specified thing) will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something" (quoted from define predicted - Google Search )
AP detected a car ahead rapidly decelerating (an event not detected by the Tesla driver). It then "estimated" that a "specific thing" (an accident") would "happen in the future" as a "consequence" of that estimation and it took action by braking.
And guess what? That "thing" did in fact "happen". Therefore, AP "predicted" that event.
Even if that line of thinking would hold, it very likely did not predict the accident that happened. I seriously doubt any part of the code in that Tesla determined two cars in front are going to collide... and hence the braking event.
No, I expect the Tesla simply reacted to slowing car in front of the lead car and started braking. It probably entered into a scenario it considered potential crash for the Tesla itself, but I doubt there was any scenario there predicting the collision of the two objects in front.
This is evidenced by the fact that the alarm came before the lead car was braking. Tesla simply reacted faster to the car in front of lead car braking than the driver in front did...
I doubt any part of the Tesla code paid attention to the relative trajectories of the two cars in front, but was probably watching them as quite separate things.