The U.S. government’s road safety agency is again investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system, this time after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents that it opened the probe on Thursday with the company reporting four crashes after Teslas entered areas of low visibility, including sun glare, fog and airborne dust.

In addition to the pedestrian’s death, another crash involved an injury, the agency said.

Investigators will look into the ability of “Full Self-Driving” to “detect and respond appropriately to reduced roadway visibility conditions, and if so, the contributing circumstances for these crashes.”

  • jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    Hard to credit without a source, modern cameras have way more dynamic range than the human eye.

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      18 days ago

      Not in one exposure. Human eyes are much better with dealing with extremely high contrasts.

      Cameras can be much more sensitive, but at the cost of overexposing brighter regions in an image.