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(Reuters) - When it came time to land at San Francisco on July 7, 2017, the pilots of an Air Canada jet could not recall a critical piece of information buried on page eight of a 27-page briefing package: the closure of one of the airport’s two runways.
Mistaking the runway they were cleared to land on for the one that was closed, the fatigued pilots chose the wrong reference point and lined up to land on a parallel taxiway instead. They came within seconds of colliding with four planes.
More than three years later, a global campaign has been launched to improve aviation safety by reducing the kind of information overload experienced by the pilots of Air Canada 759.
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Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) claimed Monday that a driver was involved in the fatal Houston crash that killed two this month, in contrast to the finding presented by authorities that no one was behind the wheel.
What Happened: The revelation was made by executives at Tesla’s Q1 2021 earnings call. The company’s vice president of vehicle engineering Lars Moravy said that Tesla inspected the car with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and local police.
“We were able to find that the steering wheel was indeed deformed. So there must leading to the likelihood that someone was in the driver seat at the time of the crash and all seatbelts post-crash were found to be unbuckled,” said Moravy.
Consumer Reports engineers said they “easily tricked” a Tesla Inc. vehicle to drive via its Autopilot feature without anyone in the driver’s seat, just days after a fatal crash in Texas where police said they found no one behind the steering wheel of a Tesla car.
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