
(But I still want a Tesla.)
When Mangesh Gururaj’s wife left home to pick up their child she turned on her Tesla Model S and hit “Summon,” a self-parking feature that the electric automaker has promoted as a central step toward driverless cars. But as the family’s sedan reversed itself out of the garage, Gururaj said, the car abruptly struck the garage’s side wall, ripping its front end off. This Tesla crash highlights the growing confidence problem facing driver-assistance technology and self-driving cars. The promise of auto-driving, robot-assisted, quasi-magical wondercars has given way to a more nuanced reality: Cars that also stop, don’t respond or crash, often with little warning or explanation.
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From the Texas Trial Lawyers Association news release.