Tesla’s Model S Auto Brake System A Failure?
Senate Commerce Committee members were informed by Tesla Motors Inc. on Thursday, citing the recent Model S Crash and claimed that the automatic braking system has failed to work properly, declining its autopilot technology was not at fault.
A Model S driver was reported dead earlier this month, after operating his car on autopilot mode. The US electric car maker told Senate Commerce Committee officials that the cause may have been its crash-prevention, which is “separate and distinct” from its Autopilot system.
Given this first fatal Model S crash, automakers and regulators were pressured as they need to ensure the safety of an automated driving technology. Several questions were raised about Tesla’s crash avoidance and autopilot mode, and is currently investigated by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The fatal Florida Crash is being investigated by both NHTSA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) of what exactly happened during the incident and if the Autopilot feature may have been the reason in any way or not.
It has remained unclear as to why and how the automaker has claimed its braking system is different from its autopilot system.
Officials of the automaker informed the committee members that the braking failure is any how different from an autopilot system malfunction, which actually overseas changing lanes, steering, adaptive cruise control, and other features that prevent accidents.
Apparently, full details of distinction between both systems was not clear.
A senior analyst at the auto research firm Kelley Blue Book told the New York Times: "Those systems are supposed to work together to prevent an accident, But either the car didn’t know it had to stop, or it did know and wasn’t able to stop. That involves Autopilot and the automatic braking."
Tesla’s Future Relies On The Gigafactory
Gigafactory is considered as the best example of the literal scale of Elon Musk’s ambitions. After the completion of the factory, it is expected to be the largest building worldwide on a footprint basis, and will produce large numbers of batteries to supply 150 gigawatt hours per year, which is widely enough for a 1.5 million Model 3s.
Meanwhile, the automaker plans to build 35GWh of batteries per year by 2018, which is equivalent to a 500,000 Model 3s.
Musk finds the building as “quite romantic,” and is aligned north to south. The size of the building is large enough to cover 107 NFL football fields with two to four floors of factory floor, including workspace layered on top.
About 10,000 wild horses are present in the area, and some are taking advantage of its construction efforts, drinking from the water storage pools that are being used during the building process.
"It's great," said Musk in a press conference with reporters at the Gigafactory yesterday. "It's like the Wild West."
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