Two die in Tesla car crash in Texas with âno oneâ in driverâs seat, police say
Car ran off road and hit a tree north of Houston, before bursting into flames, local media says
The car that crashed in Texas, killing two people, is believed to be a 2019 Tesla Model S. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The car that crashed in Texas, killing two people, is believed to be a 2019 Tesla Model S. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Last modified on Sun 18 Apr 2021 21.14 EDT Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driverâs seat, crashed into a tree north of Houston, authorities said.
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Today’s newsletter is early because NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars is set to fly its $85 million Ingenuity helicopter this morning. (Still cheaper than a single CH-53K King Stallion)
Timing-wise, it’s happening now in the bleary-eyed AM in the US, and it’s not exactly 8K drone footage that we’ll be watching instead it’s more like a data download to assess, but the NASA control room will be watching, and as NASA said itself,
you only get to fly on a different world once.
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We’ve recently covered a Model Y that plowed into a police car, and not that long ago, the National Transportation Safety Board said that Autopilot suffers from
“a lack of appropriate safeguards.” Adding insult to injury, Tesla regulatory counsel Eric C. Williams told the California Department of Motor Vehicles that Autopilot and FSD are definitely not autonomous systems.
The bad publicity doesn’t end here, though. A Tesla with nobody in the driver’s seat has crashed into a tree and burst into flames in Spring, Texas, killing two people after failing to make a turn. One of the men killed was in the front passenger seat while the other was in the rear according to KHOU.
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Two Die in Tesla Crash in Texas By Hyunjoo Jin and Kanishka Singh | April 19, 2021
Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree on Saturday night north of Houston, authorities said.
“There was no one in the driver’s seat,” Sgt. Cinthya Umanzor of the Harris County Constable Precinct 4 said.
The 2019 Tesla Model S was traveling at a high rate of speed, when it failed to negotiate a curve and went off the roadway, crashing to a tree and bursting into flames, local television station KHOU-TV said.