Det. Thomas Villarreal of the Austin Police Association discusses the PD's decision to implement artificial intelligence software in an effort to alleviate their officer shortage on'Fox & Friends Weekend.' A couple hit head on by a suspected drunk driver in Austin, Texas, said it took 2.5 hours for police to respond to the crash – allowing the driver to sober up and avoid charges. Lacey Purciful told Fox News Digital the family called 911 five times after the March 18 crash, but the several understaffed police department left them waiting. Purciful said she was driving with her husband Dustin and two children down Jollyville Road in North Austin at around 4 p.m. after a day at the aquarium when a male driver cut across two lanes of traffic and slammed into them head-on. "Head on, didn't hit the brakes, airbags deployed, screaming kids, smoke, adrenaline, we started screaming, and got the kids out of the car," Purciful told Fox News Digital about the crash.

An owner of a Tesla (TSLA) Model 3 has claimed that the electric car performed so poorly using the autopilot feature that it acted like a "drunk novice driver," prompting them to sue the automaker to buy back the EV. A judge from the Darmstadt Regional Court in Germany ordered Tesla to buy back the Model 3 for $76,000 from the unhappy vehicle owner, according to Electrek. Tesla has appealed the court's decision, contending that the autopilot problems could have been relieved with a software upgrade free of charge, German news outlet Spiegel reported. The complaint, according to Spiegel, alleged that the owner of the Model 3 paid nearly $7,000 for the autopilot function, which they claimed "did not work." The plaintiff said that "The steering behavior at entrances and exits or motorway junctions is spongy and resembles that of a'drunk novice driver,'" adding that it did not recognize traffic lights and stop signs, according to Spiegel.

Tesla's Autopilot may have prevented a deadly crash when the technology brought a Model S to stop after detecting the driver, who was intoxicated, was no longer responsive. The incident occurred on a highway in Norway on Friday, when a 24-year-old man got behind the wheel after a night of drinking and fell asleep while the vehicle was still in motion. The Autopilot system was activated during the trip, which kept the car in its lane and away from other vehicles on the road. The Eastern Police District released a statement on its Twitter account saying the man was drunk and denied driving'although there is video of him in the car.' Tesla's Autopilot may have prevented a deadly crash when the technology brought a Model S to stop after detecting the driver, who was intoxicated, was no longer responsive Tesla's Autopilot is an advanced driver assistance system that matches the speed of the Tesla with surrounding traffic, keeps the vehicle in its lane and guides the car through lane changes and ramps. The technology also automatically engages the turn signal and takes the correct exit – all of these functions may have saved the life of the Norwegian man and those in surrounding vehicles. The video of the intoxicated driver, who's identity has yet to be revealed, was published on Twitter, which shows him in the front seat of a white Model S driving down the highway and toward the Nøstvet tunnel, according to Electrek.

Police chief says mannequins will have facial recognition cameras to fight crime, spot traffic offenders, fine drunk drivers; American and French police show interest in the new tech Disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon empower mannequins to fight crime, spot traffic offenders, fine drunk drivers and rein in criminals across the city, a top official said. "We will soon have artificial eyes fixed in mannequins as cameras with a small AI-linked computing device inside them for facial recognition through a well-connected central server," City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao said. The mannequins, however, will not be permanent fixtures at a given place but operate in a hide-and-seek mode. "The AI software will locate the culprits, tip off the police about the number of violations one has committed, count the traffic slips registered against the same vehicle, estimate the penalty amount and alert the police," said Rao. On how futuristic dummies and connected police officers work, Rao said a drunk driver caught on MG Road will be identified by the mannequin even at a far-away junction to relay information to the control room through facial recognition.

Do you know someone that seems to be progressively forgetting things and their mind cannot remain focused on matters at-hand? I'm not referring to the occasional moment whereby you might get distracted and misremember where you left your keys or where you put the TV remote. We've likely all had those moments. I knew a friend in college that every time he noticed that someone else had lost something or misplaced an item, he would jump right away to the classic "have you lost your mind" and seemed to overplay the rather hackneyed phrase (it became an ongoing irritant to those of us that interacted with him regularly). It is easy to leap to foregone conclusions and falsely suggest that someone has a systemic mental failing. Typically, regrettably, as we get older, humans do though tend to genuinely have a kind of mental decay and their brains sadly begin to deteriorate. There are an estimated 5 million people in the United States that are currently experiencing dementia. Keep in mind that dementia is not a disease per se, though some assume it is, and instead it is considered an umbrella term that encompasses the loss of our thinking skills and also the degradation of various memory processing aspects.

When a pair of California Highway Patrol officers pulled alongside a car cruising down Highway 101 in Redwood City before dawn Friday, they reported a shocking sight: a man fast asleep behind the wheel. The car was a Tesla, the man was a Los Altos planning commissioner, and the ensuing freeway stop turned into a complex, seven-minute operation in which the officers had to outsmart the vehicle's autopilot system because the driver was unresponsive, according to the CHP. The arrest of 45-year-old Alexander Samek on suspicion of drunken driving reignited questions about the uses, and potential abuses, of self-driving technology. Reached by phone Friday afternoon, Samek, a real estate developer who runs the Kor Group, said, "I can't talk right now," before hanging up. Officers observed Samek's gray Tesla Model S around 3:30 a.m. as it sped south at 70 mph on Highway 101 near Whipple Avenue, said Art Montiel, a CHP spokesman.