BUT BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO
GET THE VIRUS.
WOLF PACK ATHLETICS HAVE NOT
RESUMED SINCE THE PAUSE EARLIER
THIS WEEK.
A TESLA ON AUTO PILOT WHILE
ITS DRIVER REPORTEDLY WATCHED A
MOVIE CRASHED INTO A NASH
COUNTY SHERIFF'S CRUISER AND
THEN A HIGHWAY PATROL CRUISER,
KNOCKING DEATH OF THE OFFICERS
TO THE GROUND.
NO ONE WAS HURT BUT AS CBS 17
CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR TELLS US
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST CLASS
INVOLVING A TESLA USING A
DRIVER ASSIST SYSTEM.
STEVE?
Reporter: THERE ARE HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF AUTOMOBILES
DRIVING ON THE ROADS OF NORTH
CAROLINA EVERY DAY AND NOT ONE
OF THEM CAN DRIVE THEMSELVES.
YET, THAT IS HOW SOME PEOPLE
TREAT THEIR DRIVER TAPS SYSTEMS
THEY BELIEVE THEY CAN CONTROL
THEIR CARS WITHOUT ANY HUMAN
INTERVENTION.
THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER
TODAY IN NASH COUNT WHERE YOU.
POLICE SAY THE DRIVER OF THIS
TESLA WAS WATCHING A MOVIE
WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS ON AUTO
PILOT WHEN IT SLAMMED INTO A
NASH SHERIFF'S DEPUTY CRUISER.
WE WERE DOING A SIMPLE LANE
CLOSURE.
Reporter: NOBODY WAS HURT IN
THE CRASH WHICH HAPPENED JUST
AFTER MIDNIGHT.
THE DRIVER, A RALEIGH DOCTOR,
NOW FACES A VARIETY OF CHARGES.
IT SHOWS THAT AUTOMATION IS
NEVER GOING TO TAKE THE PLACE
OF OUR MOTORING PUBLIC PAYING
ATTENTION, NOT TEXTING, NOT
BEING ON THE PHONE BUT FOCUSED
ON WHAT YOU'RE DOING DRIVING.
Reporter: THIS IS NOT THE
FIRST CRASH INVOLVING A TESLA
ON AUTO PILOT.
THE MOST RECENT HAPPENED LAST
MONTH WHEN AN ARIZONA STATE
TROOPER'S CRUISER WAS HIT WHILE
THE TESLA WAS ON AUTO PILOT
ACCORDING TO ITS DRIVER.
LAST YEAR, I TOLD YOU ABOUT A
STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE
INSURANCE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHWAY
SAFETY WHICH SAID PEOPLE ARE
CONFUSED ABOUT HOW DRIVER
ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS WORK.
WHAT THEY NAME THE SYSTEM
HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR WHAT THE
DRIVER UNDERSTAND.
Reporter: BACK IN JUNE OF
2019, THE IIHS CONDUCT AWED
SURVEY EVER OVER 2,000 DRIVERS
AN FOUND A NAME LIKE AUTO PILOT
CREATE MISCONCEPTIONS.
ALMOST HALF INDICATED THEY
COULD TAKE THEIR HANDS OFF THE
STEERING WHEEL AND ALMOST 6%
THOUGHT THEY COULD TAKE A NAP.
Reporter: THE INSTITUTE
RECOMMENDED CHANGING THE NAME
OF SYSTEMS LIKE AUTO PILOT TO
SOMETHING LESLIE TO DELEWD
DRIVERS INTO THINKING THAT
THEIR VEHICLE WILL DRIVE
THEMSELVES.
WE SHOULD ALSO MENTION THAT WE
STOPPED BY THE HOME OF THE
PERSON WHO WAS DRIVING THAT
TESLA.
