Tesla is facing setbacks after issues with the company’s autopilot technology in the new models of its vehicles. But, Tesla just gained a huge advocate from the EDM world: Zedd.
Zedd revealed on Twitter that the Tesla autopilot technology saved his life. He said that he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home late at night. While this normally would’ve resulted in a life-threatening crash, Tesla’s autopilot tech came through. Zedd said that he had autopilot enabled, and that it woke him up by beeping and turning off his music after he didn’t touch the wheel for a few minutes. Without the tech, Zedd said he would’ve likely died. Ghastly even replied to support his message.
There’s lots of “bad” news about Teslas w/ autopilot crashing.
Just to show the other side too:
I once fell asleep driving home late at night on the highway (w/ autopilot on) and got woken up by it beeping + turning off music to wake me up. Would have prob been dead without it.— Zedd (@Zedd) May 31, 2018
such bs it’s all for the clicks cuz we all know a headline that says “Human Operated Vehicles Result In Only 40,000 Dead This Week” won’t interest anyone. Throw a little hit piece on Elon in there and you got urself some ad revenue. Gotta love the media
— Ghastly (@Ghastly) May 31, 2018
Exactly! It’s so ridiculous. Had to tell my side of the story – I find it much more interesting to read about how many lives self diving cars can safe instead.
— Zedd (@Zedd) May 31, 2018
Because I didn’t touch the steering wheel for a couple minutes and then it turned off the music and started beeping.
— Zedd (@Zedd) May 31, 2018
Zedd’s anecdote is a key example of how Tesla’s autopilot tech can help its drivers. Perhaps Tesla will reach out to him for some future promotion? Hmmm…
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