Fail: Tesla thinks the moon is a traffic light
You don’t make this up yourself. Tesla’s autopilot mistakes the moon for a traffic light. And that has consequences.
If Tesla Autopilot thought it was an innocent object, nothing would have happened. However, because it thinks it is a traffic light, the system intervenes. The car can brake when it suddenly gets very close to the moon, er, the traffic light.
Images of the bug are by Jordan Nelson on Twitter shared and brought to the attention of Elon Musk. What you see in the video is that the Tesla is just driving on a dead straight road. However, every few meters a traffic light comes into view. The car brakes a little each time. The moon that is high in the sky is in this case a traffic light, but the Tesla sees this really differently.
A special bug, because you can link the shape of the moon to all kinds of things, but not to a traffic light? The video on Twitter has since been viewed more than 800,000 times. In short, this bug has been brought to the attention of the American car manufacturer, known for the Model S, Model X and Model 3. This issue must be addressed through a software update.
