A man who died after crashing his Tesla had relied too much on the car's autopilot function and was playing a game on his phone at the time of the accident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.A 38-year-old man who died shortly after crashing his Tesla had relied too much on the car's autopilot function and was playing a game on his cell phone at the time of the accident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.coupled with Walter Huang's distracted driving led to his death in March 2018 in Mountain View, California.
In the days following the accident, Tesla said the company had"never seen [that] level of damage to a Model X in any other crash." In this March 23, 2018 photo provided by KTVU, emergency personnel work a the scene where a Tesla electric SUV crashed into a barrier on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, Calif. Apple engineer Walter Huang died when his Tesla Model X crashed into the concrete barrier and had complained previously about the autopilot.
The NTSB knocked the NHTSA for its"non-regulatory hands-off approach," recommending that the agency conduct a strong defect investigation program into Tesla's autopilot system.MORE: Tesla car was on autopilot prior to fatal crash in California, company says
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