This weekend, two 59- and 69-year-old men were killed when the Tesla Model S they were in left the road, hit a tree and set it on fire. As KHOU 11 investigators say investigators found their bodies in the front passenger seat and rear seat, and Constable Mark Herman told reporters that investigators were “100 percent sure no one in the driver’s seat was driving the vehicle during the attack.”
Given the statements of investigators, this raises the question of whether this is an example of someone (missing) using Tesla’s Autopilot or beta “Full Self Driving Mode”, a level two driver’s assistant who does not own the car should not drive without someone at the helm. While Tesla did not comment publicly on the crash, Elon Musk said sent a tweet on Monday addressing it directly, told a supporter: “Your research as a private person is better than professionals … Data files recovered so far show that Autopilot was not activated and that this car did not buy FSD.”
Musk did not specify what data was currently recovered from the vehicle, while the NTSB said it sends two investigators to look at the accident and the fire after the accident. Similarly, investigators did not go into depth about why they were so sure no one was at the helm during the wreck.
However, there were examples of Tesla owners turning on Autopilot while inept / inattentive or out of the driver’s seat. One person on Twitter refuted Musk’s claim that Autopilot would not be activated in the street, post a video show how it works in a street without lines. A reporter for KPRC 2 spoke to the brother-in-law of one of the men in the accident, who said the owner of the car backed it up on the driveway, then jumped into the back before driving and just a few hundred yards from the place crashed. start. We will have to wait for more evidence to understand exactly what caused the accident and a fire that burned for almost four hours.
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