Fatal Tesla Crash Raises New Questions About Autopilot System
When the upgrades were released, Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said the new Autopilot system was “really going to be beyond what people expect”
and would make the Tesla Model S sedan and the Model X sport utility vehicle the safest cars on the road “by far.”
Now, however, Tesla’s semiautonomous driving system is coming under new scrutiny after the company disclosed late on Friday
that a fatal crash on March 23 in California occurred while Autopilot was engaged.
By NEAL E. BOUDETTEMARCH 31, 2018
In the fall of 2016, Tesla beamed new software over the air to cars on the road in the United States and elsewhere
that added safeguards to its Autopilot system to prevent drivers from looking away from the road or keeping their hands off the steering wheel for long periods of time.
