[sammydavis]

This post is misleading or just wrong. Perhaps the author is stuck on the word "predicting" as in I figured out soon there will be an accident using magical AI techniques.

As the author says, the tesla saw 2 cars (things) in front of it, the one farther ahead rapidly slowing down, the one directly ahead was very likely to need to slow down to avoid a crash, so the tesla slowed down. I don't understand the issue using a word like 'prediction', but it did slow down ahead of time, because it noted the situation and computed a likely future state.