We don't know whether the car entered the gore at its apex, or from the side. If the car didn't enter the gore until well past where the gore began, there wouldn't have been 200 meters of warning to the driver.
Given the CHP report, I think we do:
Update on collision on US-101southbound at SR-85 Blue Tesla driving southbound on US-10, driving at freeway speeds on the gore point dividing the SR-85 carpool flyover and the carpool lane on US-101 southbound collided with the attenuator barrier and caught fire
If it were at distance 1 from another car, where else could it get 150 meters of unobstructed view given the barrier is visible from much further away?
All Tesla has the ability to report is what is recorded in the data stream. In this case whether driver induced torque was detected.My point is that Tesla's blog seemed to imply the driver was not in control because of the six seconds, and I'm saying the blog is misleading for that reason.
They do not say the driver's hands were not on the wheel. Explatolation/ interpretation is fully up to the reader.and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision.