02-27-2020, 08:50 PM
If anyone is interested, here is the detailed NTSB report on the analysis of the cell phone and cell service usage.
I've looked through it, and the depth of investigation is interesting.
But nowhere in their 'deep dive' do I see anything that shows Apple as having any collateral responsibility for the collision.
At this point, I don't know if it's been proven that the Tesla had trouble navigating the barrier it crashed into. Maybe that's already been demonstrated one way or the other and I've missed it.
But the driver thought it was, and whether or not that was the case, believed it to be true. Given that, my feeling is the sole onus falls on him to avoid what he believed to be a known hazard, and not be playing a game on his phone.
I'd be more interested in reading the NSTB's official summation, and how they arrived at their conclusions.
Will/did they mention CA's several cellphone laws prohibiting use?
Will/did they show some evidence that Telsa's use of Autopilot and Autosteer lead to the collision, or conversely, had they not used that branding, this collision would not have occurred?
I bet not, in either case.
Fire requires three conditions to exist. Removing only one absolutely prevents or stops fire.
In the case of this collision, adding an advisory by Apple not to use the phone while driving and Tesla not using Autopilot and Autosteer as marketing terms cannot absolutely prevent a similar incident.
That responsibility falls upon the driver, who at the very least violated a long standing rule of the road as defined by the CVC..
I've looked through it, and the depth of investigation is interesting.
But nowhere in their 'deep dive' do I see anything that shows Apple as having any collateral responsibility for the collision.
At this point, I don't know if it's been proven that the Tesla had trouble navigating the barrier it crashed into. Maybe that's already been demonstrated one way or the other and I've missed it.
But the driver thought it was, and whether or not that was the case, believed it to be true. Given that, my feeling is the sole onus falls on him to avoid what he believed to be a known hazard, and not be playing a game on his phone.
I'd be more interested in reading the NSTB's official summation, and how they arrived at their conclusions.
Will/did they mention CA's several cellphone laws prohibiting use?
Will/did they show some evidence that Telsa's use of Autopilot and Autosteer lead to the collision, or conversely, had they not used that branding, this collision would not have occurred?
I bet not, in either case.
Fire requires three conditions to exist. Removing only one absolutely prevents or stops fire.
In the case of this collision, adding an advisory by Apple not to use the phone while driving and Tesla not using Autopilot and Autosteer as marketing terms cannot absolutely prevent a similar incident.
That responsibility falls upon the driver, who at the very least violated a long standing rule of the road as defined by the CVC..