Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ failure claims two more lives in US Herman said it took firefighters nearly four hours and more than 30,000 gallons of water to extinguish the blaze. By IANS| Posted by Sakina Fatima | Published: 19th April 2021 5:00 pm IST Tesla In what could be another Autopilot mode failure, two people were killed in a fiery Tesla crash in Texas with no one in the driver’s seat. Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman told Houston Television station KPRC 2 that the investigation showed “no one was driving” the fully electric 2019 Tesla when the accident happened. “There was a person in the passenger seat of the front of the car and in the rear passenger seat of the car,” the report quoted Herman as saying on Sunday.