Nio’s autopilot system fatal accident in China

[SMAlset]

Saw that Nio had a fatal accident with its autopilot system. Always sad to read about these especially involving a fatality. Didn’t read it but there was a South China Morning Post article on it as well.

Nio tumbles 7% on reports of a fatal accident involving one of its self-driving SUVs

Many so-called autonomous vehicles still require driver attention when in self-driving mode, a fact underscored by a federal probe into Tesla unveiled on Monday.

markets.businessinsider.com

 

[AndreP]

Likely the same static object issue the NHTSA is investigating in Autopilot and that is shared across all advanced cruise control systems

Drivers using these systems need to always be ready to take over in a split second