10-07-2021, 05:46 PM
ztirffritz wrote:
The media is largely clueless about what Tesla are doing and don't understand what's happening. Throw into the mix vehicle operators who are negligent and you have situations like this. There's absolutely no excuse for a vehicle operated by a human while on cruise control to crash into an emergency vehicle...except for human negligence. If I'm driving on the highway and I see flashing lights on the side of the road I slow down and give the police cruiser a wide berth. Clearly the vehicle operator wasn't paying attention.
No disagreement here at all.
Back to the "why" though: I notice this only seems to be happening to emergency vehicles while they're in use, all of which presumably would have their flashing lights on at the time.
Since police have started using the all-LED light bars on their cars, I've said the light bars are FAR too bright at night to the point of being blinding, making it all but impossible to see officers directing you around an accident or standing in the road near their car. Light bar manufacturers need to add a "Night Mode" to their products such as the LED displays on car radios have in which the LEDS dim to half or so of their daytime illumination when the vehicle's headlights are turned on.
Could it be that the over-bright LED emergency vehicle lights are as blinding to the forward-looking sensors of Tesla's collision avoidance system at night as they are to human eyes?