Another Person Has Reportedly Died Due to a Tesla Autopilot Failure
A man was killed in China when his Tesla Model S, which reportedly had its Autopilot driver-assist function engaged, smashed into a stationary vehicle in the left lane of a major highway. Though the crash occurred in January, reports of the incident are only surfacing now.
A 23-year-old man was killed on January 20th while behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S traveling on a highway near Hong Kong when the electric car drove itself into a street-cleaning truck that was stopped on the side of the roadway's left lane, Electrek reports. The man had borrowed the car from his father. Police reportedly found no signs that the car's brakes were used before the impact, and reports show the car was using its semi-autonomous Autopilot driver-assist function. If the car was indeed using Autopilot, this would be the first crash to kill someone while the car's semi-autonomous driving function was active, pre-dating the crash that killed Joshua Brown in June.