<story><title>Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_cardboard_box</author><text>In this case the Tesla slammed on the brakes &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; changed lanes, so there wasn&amp;#x27;t a realistic way for the other car to prevent the collision.</text></item><item><author>markisus</author><text>The Tesla should not have stopped but there is a cultural problem of driving way too close to the car in front of you. There are other justified scenarios why a car would have had to slam on the brakes at that same spot and the pileup would have still occurred.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markisus</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re right. The first rear-ending may have been unavoidable. However, you can see from the rear surveillance camera that subsequent vehicles could have stopped if everyone agreed to keep larger following distances. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there is the game-theoretical issue of other drivers cutting in when large gaps form so it would take some coordination on a technology &amp;#x2F; policy &amp;#x2F; cultural level to resolve the issue.</text></comment>
<story><title>Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a_cardboard_box</author><text>In this case the Tesla slammed on the brakes &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; changed lanes, so there wasn&amp;#x27;t a realistic way for the other car to prevent the collision.</text></item><item><author>markisus</author><text>The Tesla should not have stopped but there is a cultural problem of driving way too close to the car in front of you. There are other justified scenarios why a car would have had to slam on the brakes at that same spot and the pileup would have still occurred.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newaccount74</author><text>Curiously the vehicle behind the Tesla barely hit it whereas the drivers of the cars further back in the pileup seemed to have paid less attention.&lt;p&gt;There would have been multiple ways for the cars further back to prevent a pileup: Drive slower, keep more distance. If you speed, have both hands on the wheel, look at the road, and be ready to brake quickly.&lt;p&gt;It does sound like there were no severe injuries, so you could argue that people kept enough distance to avoid serious injuries.</text></comment>