2 killed in driverless Tesla car crash, officials say
April 18, 2021 Two men were killed in Texas after a Tesla they were in crashed Saturday and caught fire with neither of the men behind the wheel, authorities said. Mark Herman, the Harris County Precinct 4 constable, said that physical evidence from the scene and interviews with witnesses led officials “to believe no one was driving the vehicle at the time of the crash.” The vehicle, a 2019 Model S, was going at a “high rate of speed” around a curve at 11:25 p.m. local time when it went off the road about 100 feet and hit a tree, Herman said. The crash occurred in a residential area i...