An autonomous truck veered left while traveling on Interstate 10 near Tuscon, Arizona, and hit a concrete median in April. No one was injured in the incident that occurred during a test drive of the TuSimple technology.
Two people were in the test vehicle, according a statement by TuSimple, which said the accident was caused when the operators “incorrectly reengaged the autonomous driving mode without completing all of the steps necessary to safely reengage….”
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the incident is under investigation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and may involve what “autonomous-driving-system specialists say are fundamental problems with the company’s technology.”
A video has been posted by The Asian Mai Show allegedly showing the incident from the vantage point of an in-cab camera. It shows the driver with his hands resting on the steering wheel. He reaches with one hand to something out of the camera’s view, and the truck veers left, cuts across a lane and hits the median, narrowly missing a vehicle.
