Tesla Autopilot's new radar technology predicts an accident caught on dashcam a second later

Just a few weeks ago, we published a report about how Tesla's new radar technology for the Autopilot is already proving useful in some potentially dangerous situations. We now have a new piece of evidence that is so spectacularly clear that it's worth updating that report. The video of an accident on the Autobahn in the Netherlands caught on the dashcam of a Tesla Model S shows the Autopilot's forward collision warning predicting an accident before it could be detected by the driver. With the release of Tesla's version 8.0 software update in September, the automaker announced a new radar processing technology that was directly pushed over-the-air to all its vehicles equipped with the first generation Autopilot hardware. One of the main features enabled by the new radar processing capacity is the ability for the system to see ahead of the car in front of you and basically track two cars ahead on the road.