A High Speed Tesla Crash Captured on DashCam with Telemetrics

Decided this might be a good time to add a specific topic on Electronic Data Recorders (EDR) and/or Crash Data Recorders (CDR)
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A High Speed Tesla Crash Captured on DashCam with Telemetrics

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Saw a Linkedin Post by Noel Lowdon
Which included:
  • This video (note i downloaded and edited the video, added other videos, etc) is taken from ‘Green’ @Greentheonly on twitter on Twitter who is well known for their research with #Tesla vehicles and various vulnerabilities.
    Please visit his account (link below) for the full thread on this but food for thought for forensic collision investigation.
    The video shows footage recovered from the vehicles embedded systems with EDR and canbus data overlaid in the bottom left.
    Green concluded...
    • The people that bet on driver asleep were probably correct. The driver did NOT hold the steering wheel and the autopilot did a "strikeout", BUT when that happens the car does not stop steering (unsafe) and continues in lane.
      What made matters even worse - the driver had their foot on the accelerator pedal gradually increasing the pressure and increasing speed. While normally AP does not operate above 90mph, but it will keep steering you don't take control.
      The biggest gap in this whole thing is - the car clearly sees an obstacle, sure it sits in the same lane, but why not override driver accelerator input pedal misapplication-prevention-style and just match speed? Sounds like a safer decision? Hopefully this could be fixed?
    Interesting stuff !
    See @GreenTheonly on twitter
COMMENTS
The video above is where i grabbed some videos from twitter, edited and added slow motion and also inserted enlarged telemetrics data.
On the twitter feed it also has a link to some of the crash information
  • 2006 Honda (model not listed)
  • 2018 Tesla (model not listed)
  • Accident location: SR-24 W/B ACALANES RD, CONTRA COSTA, CA, US
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