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A Tesla vehicle driven by an 18-year-old teen with its "Autopilot" engaged crashed into a stationary truck providing construction lane control on a Pennsylvania highway, intensifying scrutiny on Elon Musk's driver assistance system.

So there you have it. Tesla has solved full autonomy and it will definitely be available later this year.

The Tesla was travelling in the middle lane when it struck the rear end of a Freightliner semi-truck that was parked in the same lane.

Mainstream media in the US is reporting that hundreds of Teslas have been involved in automobile accidents, in what appears to be a politically-motivated effort to target the vehicle manufacturer.

The jet, a Cessna Citation carrying several passengers, later crashed in the Northern Virginia wilderness as it ran out of fuel.

In the wreckage of the private jet, questions remain about why it took 90 minutes before fighter jets were launched to intercept the plane. our mary bruce pressing the white house today. >> reporter: do you think the underlying protocol needs to change here? >> they responded in a very textbook fashion here but i also said theyll take a look at this. >> reporter: air traffic control losing contact with the pilot just 15 minutes after he took off from tennessee, nonresponsive. but the autopilot c...

Found the government agencies have been a high alert, since the incident hurried more now we go to fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin and jennifer, tell us what we should know. >> well try, and it was a dramatic afternoon here in washington dc the president was gulping out of enders air force base when two f-16s, they took off from the air national guard. jennifer: there was that cessna citation, that you mentioned that was flying in a seem to be on autopilot, heading towa...

Found the government agencies have been a high alert, since the incident hurried more now we go to fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin and jennifer, tell us what we should know. >> well try, and it was a dramatic afternoon here in washington dc the president was gulping out of enders air force base when two f-16s, they took off from the air national guard. jennifer: there was that cessna citation, that you mentioned that was flying in a seem to be on autopilot, heading towa...

Aircraft and getting no response. there is a lot of questions there. obviously a tragedy. >> bill: this airplane appeared to make a stark 180 in the air. well look at the flight plan. it was supposed to land near long island and it gets to the new york and literally does a u turn. what would explain that plane just banking around, turning around and heading directly over the u.s. capitol if it was on autopilot? >> sure. when you set the autopilot you are setting for a destination. the destinatio...

Autopilot. it stayed perfectly at the cruising altitude filed to the faa at 34,000 feet when it went from east tennessee all the way to macarthur airport in long island, new york. but then the question here is why did the airplane turn? why did it turn back to the southwest? and over washington, d.c., and ultimately crashing in virginia? likely something would the autopilot. it may have stayed on. we would have to actually see equipment onboard and that is something the ntsb will dig into with t...