VIDEO: Deputy pulls over Tesla driver asleep at wheel going 82 mph while on autopilot A deputy told the driver he followed him for two miles and saw him slumped over in the driver's seat. Share Updated: 11:39 PM EDT May 18, 2021 VIDEO: Deputy pulls over Tesla driver asleep at wheel going 82 mph while on autopilot A deputy told the driver he followed him for two miles and saw him slumped over in the driver's seat. Share Updated: 11:39 PM EDT May 18, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript FOUR. TOYA: DEADWOOD -- DEPUTY SAID THE MAN APPEARED TO HAVE HIS EYES CLOSED BEHIND THE WHEEL. HILLY:AR JUST BEFORE 8:00 A.M. ON FRIDAY, YET THE CALL TO TO BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR A TESLA DRIVER ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. HE PULLS UP RIGHT NEXT TO THE CAR AT 82 MILES AN HOUR. >> I LOOKED OVER AND NOTICED HIS HEAD WAS TURNED AWAY FROM ME AND LOOKING DOWN. HILLARY: YOU WERE IN DISBELIEF THIS GUY WAS SLEEPING. >> EXACTLY. HILLARY: WITH LIGHTS AND SIRENS BLARING, TWO MILESAT LERHE DRIVER FINALLY PULLS OVER. >> I FOLLOWED YOUOR F ABOUT TWO MILES AND YOU WERE SLEEPING. >> I WAS LITTLE BIT TIRED. >> NO, YOU WERE SLEEPING. LLHIARY: ACCORDING TO THIS POLICE REPORT, 38-YEAR-OLD, MITUL PATEL FROM ILLINOIS SAID HE’S A FED EX DRIVER AND WAS ON HIS WAY TO WORK IN CUDAHY. >> YOU BEEN DRINKING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? >> NO SIR, I’M JUST ON MY WAY TO WO.RK >> YOU’RE OYON UR WAY TO WORK AND YOU’RE SLEEPING? >> I’M JUST ON MY WAY I’M NOT SLEEPING YOU KNOW LIKE I SAID I WAS JUST TIRED. HILLARY: BODY CAMERA CAPTURED THE DISPLAY SCREEN SHOWING THE VEHICLE WAS ON AUTO PILOT. >> I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE AUTOPILOT BUT YOU’RE NOT ABLE TO MAKE THAT CONSCIOUS DECISION TO STOP IT. HILLARY: IN FACT, TESLA MANDATES WHEN USING AUTOPILOT, THE DRIVER MUST KEEP THEIR HANDS ON THE STEERING WHE.EL >> WERE YOU SLEEPING IN THIS CAR? >> I WAS NOT SLEEPG.IN HILLARY: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, DESK -- DEPUTY SAID IS NOT THE FIRST TIME HE HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF THIS. >> I LOOKED AT HIS REGISTRATION, HE HAD BEEN PULLED OVER TO OTHER TIMES IN FEBRUARY AND BOTH TIMES IT WAS REPORTED THAT HE APPEARED TO BE HAD DOWN AND SLEEPING. HILLARY: THIS DEPUTY HOPES 3RD TIME’S THE CHARM, AND THAT THE DRIVER HAS LEARNED HIS LESSON BEFORE SOMEONE GETS HURT. IN KENOSHA COUNTY, HILLARY MINTZ WISN 12 NEWS. TOYA: THE DRIVER WAS GIVEN A 187 DOLLAR CITATION FOR INATTENTEIV DRIVING. HIS CAR WAS ALSO TOWED, BECAUSE DEPUTIES FELT IT WASN’T SAFE FOR HIM TO GET BACBEK HIND THE WHL.EE THE DRIVER TOLD 12 NEWS HE HAD NO COM