Human on a Bicycle TESLA Collision Tests Will Mike go SPLAT! Tesla Autopilot Kill Bikers? LETS FIND OUT! Human Collision Test! ---------------------------- Prompted by a Article written by "Heather Knight", a Roboticist and researcher at Stanford University, Titled "Tesla Autopilot Review: Bikers will DIE" , Myself and my Trusty sidekick Mike, took it upon ourselves yet AGAIN to Test out Tesla Autopilot against a Real, Live, Human on a Bicycle. Here are our e are our Results... ►See full version of the video: ****** ►See Mikes version of this video From his POV! Visit: ****** ►Our last Human Crash Test Video: ****** ►****** ►****** ►****** ►****** KmanEnergy For Licensing of this video or any part of please contact: ****** 414-807-8354 No part of this video may be reproduces without prior Written Consent. SUCCESS It detected and stopped for a bike in the middle of the lane. Though, it saw the bike as a "Car", most likely due to it being long ways in the lane, the width reflects back to the radar more so like a "Car" then a bike. SUCCESS This time, even though I was quite far back when I activated Autopilot, it detected the bike so quickly & soon that it wouldn't even let the car get to the set speed of 25mph. SUCCESS The Tesla's Radar saw Mike & bike, and stopped for him. It appears due to the bike being Long-Ways in the lane, between the Radar & Camera, it had detected at distance, however, became "Unsure" of itself once stopped. Tesla's are programmed on the side of caution, as such, required driver to check for vehicles & people before resuming. SUCCESS & Partial Fail Interesting Result! Somewhat expected though based on our tests from last year. The Tesla Model S slowed down, and followed Mike. Once Mike moved over to the shoulder of the road, the car attempted to resume it's course and speed. Unfortunately, at this point, the radar could no longer see the Bike and the Side Sonar did not appear to detect it quick enough before Driver took over, and could have resulted in a Minor hit. Though, also note, We are testing using the old Autopilot 1.0 Hardware. Autopilot 1.0 Sonar has a maximum range of 4ft (1.22 meters), where as Autopilot 2.0 hardware (What is being used currently in Tesla Production for Model S, X, & 3) has a range of 8 ft (2.44 meters) may be enough to have detected the bike from the side. Also, hardware 2.0 incorporates the use of 8 cameras giving a 360* Visual to the computer, where as autopilot 1.0 only has a single forward facing camera. PASS/FAIL Pass = The Model S detected the bike and slowed the vehicle down. Fail= Vehicle did not bring itself to a complete stop. Instead of a complete stop, the Autopilot Panicked and sounded collision alert. In this case, the swerving "drunk driving" of Mike, brought him in and out of the radars detection zone. As such, when the car was too close to maintain a lock on him, sounded the collision alert for driver to take over. Complicated I, as the driver became nervous. I touched the steering wheel, result, deactivating autopilot. However, after touching the steering wheel, Autopilot deactivates and becomes TACC (Traffic Aware Cruise Control). TACC is similar to Autopilot, only does NOT steer the car. It can still bring the vehicle to a complete stop and activate collision avoidance. In this case, TACC slowed the vehicle down until the bike was clear of the vehicles path, then the car resumed it's speed. Tests would be the same for Model X, Model S, Model 3