An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X hit a concrete barrier on a Silicon Valley freeway had complained before his death that the SUV’s Autopilot system would malfunction within the area where the crash happened.
The complaints were detailed in documents released Tuesday by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the 2018 crash that killed Walter Huang.
The documents say Huang told his wife that Autopilot had previously veered his SUV toward an equivalent barrier on U.S. 101 near Mountain View, California where he later crashed.
An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X hit a concrete barrier on a Silicon Valley freeway had complained before his death that the SUV’s Autopilot system would malfunction within the area where the crash happened.
The complaints were detailed during a trove of documents released Tuesday by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the March 2018 crash that jobs with a computer science degree Walter Huang.
The documents say Huang told his wife that Autopilot had previously veered his SUV toward an equivalent barrier on U.S. 101 near Mountain View, California where he later crashed. Huang died at a hospital from his injuries.
“Walter said the car would veer toward the barrier within the mornings when he visited work,” the Huang family’s attorney wrote during a response to NTSB questions.
Huang also described Autopilot’s malfunctioning to his brother, the attorney wrote, additionally to talking with a lover who owns a Model X. Huang, a programmer, discussed with the friend how a patch to the Autopilot software affected its performance and made the Model X veer, the lawyer’s response said.
Sometime before the crash, Huang took his Tesla to a service center to repair a “navigation error,” the attorney’s response said. But Tesla couldn't duplicate the matter and it had been not repaired.
The complaints were detailed in documents released Tuesday by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the 2018 crash that killed Walter Huang.
The documents say Huang told his wife that Autopilot had previously veered his SUV toward an equivalent barrier on U.S. 101 near Mountain View, California where he later crashed.
An Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X hit a concrete barrier on a Silicon Valley freeway had complained before his death that the SUV’s Autopilot system would malfunction within the area where the crash happened.
The complaints were detailed during a trove of documents released Tuesday by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the March 2018 crash that jobs with a computer science degree Walter Huang.
The documents say Huang told his wife that Autopilot had previously veered his SUV toward an equivalent barrier on U.S. 101 near Mountain View, California where he later crashed. Huang died at a hospital from his injuries.
“Walter said the car would veer toward the barrier within the mornings when he visited work,” the Huang family’s attorney wrote during a response to NTSB questions.
Huang also described Autopilot’s malfunctioning to his brother, the attorney wrote, additionally to talking with a lover who owns a Model X. Huang, a programmer, discussed with the friend how a patch to the Autopilot software affected its performance and made the Model X veer, the lawyer’s response said.
Sometime before the crash, Huang took his Tesla to a service center to repair a “navigation error,” the attorney’s response said. But Tesla couldn't duplicate the matter and it had been not repaired.
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