A Snohomish County woman is urging Tesla to make safety changes to its vehicles after a Tesla, traveling on autopilot, crashed and killed her fiancé on a busy highway.
The Washington State Patrol (WSP) is investigating a fatal crash where the driver claims his Tesla was on autopilot when it fatally truck a motorcyclist.
A Tesla that may have been operating on the company’s Autopilot driving system hit and killed a motorcyclist near Seattle, raising questions about whether a recent recall went far enough to ensure Tesla drivers using Autopilot pay attention to the road.
Driving Distracted While using Tesla's so-called "Autopilot" capabilities, a Washington man hit and killed a motorcyclist — because he was, apparently, scrolling through his phone while driving. As the local Everett Herald newspaper reports,
The driver of a Tesla said he was on autopilot mode and distracted by his cell phone when his vehicle "lurched forward" and hit and killed a motorcyclist.
The driver of a Tesla said he was on autopilot mode and distracted by his cell phone when his vehicle "lurched forward" and hit and killed a motorcyclist.
A Snohomish man has been arrested for vehicular homicide after hitting and killing a motorcyclist while he was on his phone and his Tesla was driving in autopilot mode.
Probable cause documents were filed against the driver of a Tesla self-driving vehicle that hit and killed a motorcyclist in a collision the afternoon of Friday, April 19th. The collision occurred on Eastbound State Route 522 at Fales Road.
A 56-year-old Snohomish man had set his Tesla Model S on Autopilot and was looking at his cellphone on Friday when he struck and killed a motorcyclist in front of him in Monroe, court records show. A Washington State Patrol trooper arrested the Tesla driver at the crash site on Highway 522 at Fales Road shortly before 4 p.