TuSimple reportedly tried to pass off a self-driving truck crash as ‘human error’
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#625M4)
TuSimple is in trouble.
Last April, a semi-trailer truck operated by the San Diego-based company that was traveling down I-10 in Tucson, Arizona, suddenly lurched left, slamming into a concrete divider, according to dashcam footage leaked to YouTuber Asian Mai. TuSimple blamed human error," but a report in The Wall Street Journal says that's a major oversimplification.
An internal report viewed by the Journal says that the crash occurred because a person in the cab hadn't properly rebooted the autonomous driving system before engaging it, causing it to execute an outdated command." The left-turn command was 2.5 minutes old and should have been erased but wasn't, according to the internal report.
The left-turn command was 2.5 minutes...