Married couple killed in first known fatal Tesla Semi crash(sfchronicle.com) |
Married couple killed in first known fatal Tesla Semi crash(sfchronicle.com) |
"Body position incompatible with life" is one.
(For the morbidly curious, the others are: rigor mortis, livor mortis (lividity), decapitation, incineration, decomposition, evisceration of brain and/or heart.)
And in the setting of traumatic arrest (generally not considered survivable because it often implies massive internal blood loss), also: "obvious, devastating blunt or penetrating trauma to the head and is pulseless and apneic after opening airway", and "severe blunt or penetrating trauma and remains pulseless and apneic after the performance of all appropriate prehospital life-saving interventions for potentially reversible causes, including but not limited to, definitive airway management, external hemorrhage control, definitive chest decompression, and pericardiocentesis."
Either way, the interesting bit is:
The reported cause — a driver falling asleep — puts the focus on the truck’s safety systems, not any self-driving software.If it is meaningful, then it's not "self-driving"
> That leaves the question of automatic emergency braking: why didn’t the truck slow or stop itself before hitting stationary vehicles at a lit intersection? AEB is designed for exactly this scenario — it detects vehicles or obstacles in the truck’s path and applies the brakes when a collision is imminent, regardless of driver input. Most modern Class 8 trucks are already equipped with collision-mitigation systems from suppliers like Bendix and Detroit Assurance
So Tesla made a decision to make their semi less safe than the average for the vehicle class.
They could have had basic safety equipment, but they wanted to save a buck. Now two people are dead and another is almost dead. This is gross negligence on the Tesla semi truck’s engineering team and the executive leadership.