In which case if autopilot was on I think the car would have recognized the skirt on the trailer and braked. Do people agree?
I don’t want to get ahead of the investigation here, but I’d bet a lot of money that AP/FSD was not on here. There’s no information from anyone involved, including the driver, indicating that AP was in use. And the circumstances are completely inconsistent with AP use. You’d be unlikely to get this sort of collision with this severity with AP or FSD in use on surface streets. The speed limits are very low.
Frankly, all these articles pointing to the possibility of AP seem completely stupid. And I am not one to defend Tesla on this sort of thing (I was not saying this on the last underrunning incident in Florida which was due to the use of AP). But these articles are ridiculous, because everyone is saying that AP was not in use, and it would not make any sense for it to be in use anyway - plus it’s quite unlikely to use it in this environment and have this result. But, clicks.
As far as detection, I do not know what AEB would do if you have the go pedal mashed to the floor, which looks like was an approximation of the situation here. To me it looks like the car did not act significantly on any detection, and these aero deflectors they have under the trailer do not prevent under running. I would think the radar would have picked it up a bit, but there was no time to do anything significant to mitigate the collision, even if the car actually reacted.
In a very different situation, if AP had been in use, the car would have been traveling much more slowly, and perhaps the detection would have worked, and perhaps the car would have collided less violently with the truck, if the truck had run the red. But no idea how reliable that would be.
I have no idea what this driver was thinking, and his poor girlfriend (?) was the victim, while somehow he apparently came out basically fine (I guess it says he is critical but he seems quite communicative).
No indication of drunkenness at this point, nothing mentioned - looks like just straight up showing off Tesla acceleration at 3:20 in the morning. Bizarre, but young people literally have incompletely formed brains, so that is the way it goes. Race on tracks, not on public roads.