(Read Transcript. watch video here: Maddow 12.21.2024 )
Maddow: Thanksgiving Day 2022 the leader of one of the world's highest profile car companies made a surprise Thanksgiving Day announcement. He told people who owned his company's cars that as of that day they no longer had to drive their cars. Starting that day Thanksgiving Day the cars would be able to drive themselves. From here on out quote Tesla full self-driving beta is now available to anyone in North America who requests it from their car screen, assuming you have bought this option. Congratulations to Tesla autopilot team on achieving a major Milestone.
So
this is two years ago, again, Thanksgiving Day, not really any warning this was
coming coming just hey hey if you bought a Tesla when you you had the option to
pay a little bit extra so it would be capable of driving itself someday, well
that day has come Happy Thanksgiving.
So
Tesla, like lots of cars now, they send software updates over the air to their
cars so your your car gets its operating system updated while it's parked in
your driveway. What the company's CEO was announcing that day in 2022 was hey,
while you've been inside enjoying turkey and stuffing and I don't know six to
eight glasses of wine with your family, lucky you, your car out there in the
driveway has just been upgraded to one that can drive itself.
So
if you want feel free to give it a go just click the Switch on the, you know,
the the screen on your dashboard and the the car henceforth will drive you
wherever you want to go.
It
was Thanksgiving Day the company CEO put out that announcement. Within a few
hours it had led to some news.
Fox
Five San Francisco reporter: Now on the Five, sixteen people including eight
kids were part of a multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge causing some major
traffic tie-ups. They say it happened so fast a chain reaction crash eastbound
on the Bay Bridge and inside the Yerba Buena tunnel.
Driver:
I thought I was a goner. At first when it happened I mean you see something
like that it's like coming towards at full speed, I thought well this is it.
Maddow:
So that was Thanksgiving Day 2022.
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Maddow: Just a few months later, news outlet, The Intercept, obtained video that
showed that accident as it happened. * Linked below
It
turns out it was a Tesla whose owner says the car was in full self-driving mode
and the car just randomly braked super hard in the middle of the tunnel, which
is what started that huge pile up of cars in the tunnel, the one that injured
all those people.
Until
today we only saw the aftermath of the Chain Reaction crash by a video of cars
stacked up in the Yerba bua tunnel eastbound on the Bay Bridge and a traffic
jam that lasted hours.
But
Bay Bridge surveillance video now shows how it started.
A
76-year-old lawyer from San Francisco told the CHP his white Tesla Model S was
in full self-driving mode when it suddenly deployed the brakes. A total of
eight Vehicles crashed nine people injured including a two-year-old boy.
Just
hours before the crash, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the launch of the full
self-driving beta version which he called a major Milestone.
But
there are a growing number of reports of the Tesla technology unexpectedly
slamming on the brakes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
assigned a special crash investigation team to look into what happened. They're
already investigating dozens of incidents evolving Advanced Driver assistance
systems from Volvos Cadillacs Hyundai Genesis and cruise but mostly Tesla.
Mostly Teslas….
4:50
The
year before that big Thanksgiving Day crash in the Bay Area, a government
agency started a program where car companies have to report when crashes happen
while a car has been in autopilot or in full stealth driving mode. They have to
tell the government when that happens.
So
that means crashes like that one that happened in the tunnel in 2022 in the San
Francisco Bay Area, also from this this other terrible crash that was right
nearby in Contra Costa county in California the following year.
This
was a firetruck that got slammed into at speed by a Tesla that was on autopilot.
The Tesla driver was killed four firefighters were sent to the hospital.
After
collecting all of this data for several years, it led to headlines like this:
quote Tesla's autopilot and full self-driving linked to hundreds of crashes and
dozens of deaths.
Government
report described the data about these hundreds of crashes but it also gave the
specific details of some of them including one particularly harrowing one from
North Carolina.
A 10th grader stepped off of a school bus, school bus was doing everything right. It was pulled over it had its lights flashing had all the warning signals that a school bus activates when it's letting off students to let everybody know around there that they need to stop, school bus was doing everything right, the kid was doing everything right but a 2022 model y Tesla on autopilot mode nevertheless whipped around the stopped school bus and slammed into this kid this 10th grader who had to be Medevac’d to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. …
7:52
What's
happened between mid October and now since then, you might have seen that Tesla's
CEO Elon Musk has basically had himself surgically attached to Donald Trump's
body. I mean seriously are they stitched together can either one of them get
dressed alone at this point?
And
of course Donald Trump won the presidential election last month.
So
what happens now to anybody who is unsettled by the idea of a robot controlled
car driving itself into a nearby fire engine full of firefighters or a robot
controlled car slamming on its breaks without warning in the middle of a
crowded tunnel full of cars going fast while people are all driving to go see
family on Thanksgiving Day, what happens to anybody who might have those kinds
of concerns Reuter's headline quote:
Exclusive:
Trump team wants to scrap car crash reporting rule.
The Trump transition has apparently surveyed the landscape of public policy in the United States of America and has decided, yeah, you know what really needs to go, what needs needs to go as a matter of priority is this thing that we've had for a few years now where car companies have to report it when their car is on autopilot and it crashes into something.
That's the new priority
*
Exclusive:
Trump team wants to scrap car crash reporting rule.
(Watch the video for more )
Blogger: Musk / Trump want to put USA on Autopilot, then watch us crash
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* Intercept report:
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