Zero Hedge
Date: 06/01/2020
By: Tyler Durden

A dramatic video emerged over the weekend of a Tesla traveling on a highway in Taiwan, at what appears to be full speed, before slamming directly into an overturned truck that was laying across the highway. The Tesla appears to make little or no change in direction before hitting the truck. At one point, smoke can be seen coming out of the back tires of the vehicle, indicating that the Tesla may have tried to brake – but to no avail.

The Tesla was "presumably on Autopilot," Inside EVs said. "Clearly, the car should've stopped itself here and you'd think this scenario would be among the easiest for a system such as Autopilot to detect and respond to, but that's definitely not the case."

On Reddit, one poster postulated that the incident may have happened due to the vehicle's lack of LIDAR, which Elon Musk has publicly ridiculed and has said is unnecessary:
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