A new accident involving the Autopilot of the Tesla Model X once again casts doubt on the system

Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and creator of the Pay Pal payment system, is having no luck with scares. After the accident that cost the life of a driver of one of his models driven by the company’s Autopilot, another accident has been recorded on a road in Pennsylvania, in the United States. Fortunately, on this occasion there were no fatal victims to mourn, but the driver and the co-pilot of the car did have to receive medical attention.

The accident occurred on the past 1 July, when the Tesla Model X crashed on a road in that US state. The car crashed into a guardrail, an impact that caused it to end up destroying the central barrier and performing a rollover that caused considerable damage to the car and its two occupants. Fortunately, both were discharged shortly afterwards, without much damage or aftereffects caused by the accident.

An accident that Tesla calls into question

This new mishap calls into question the effectiveness of the system that manages the autonomous driving of cars manufactured by the American brand. Although we know that all these systems are still in a testing phase and should not be considered fully operational, we must bear in mind that they still need several adjustments and adaptations to be fully functional, as we are seeing these days.

The problem is that we cannot assert that on this occasion it was a failure of the Autopilot, since Tesla says it has no record that the automatic piloting was active. According to a statement issued by the company, they have no record that it was engaged and only registered the deployment of the airbag, so the error could be due to human error rather than a malfunction of the driver-assistance system.

Either way, this new event once again calls into question the use of these systems, which are not yet ready to take over driving on the road. For the time being, it will mean that from now on the controls these cars must pass will be tightened, so that they can hit the road with the driving system active and without problems in order to operate legally and, above all, safely.

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