>But it leads to things like Teslas driving into trucks parked sideways across the road because the engineers simply never predicted it would ever happen. And now it's happened multiple times!
This is a completely wrong reading of the situation. Tesla engineers clearly understood it is impossible to determine whether a stationary object is actually on the street or just an overhead sign with the equipment that is available on current Tesla cars and therefore they simply ignore all stationary objects. Because Autopilot is not a self driving technology this is not considered a problem. If a Tesla with enabled Autopilot ever runs into a stationary object it is clearly the driver's fault. It's extremely predictable and since it's easy to blame the driver there is no need to fix the problem by adding the required sensors to Tesla cars.
This is a completely wrong reading of the situation. Tesla engineers clearly understood it is impossible to determine whether a stationary object is actually on the street or just an overhead sign with the equipment that is available on current Tesla cars and therefore they simply ignore all stationary objects. Because Autopilot is not a self driving technology this is not considered a problem. If a Tesla with enabled Autopilot ever runs into a stationary object it is clearly the driver's fault. It's extremely predictable and since it's easy to blame the driver there is no need to fix the problem by adding the required sensors to Tesla cars.