Autonomous Trucks
A 35-year-old man was killed on May 5 when his Tesla Model 3 struck an overturned semi-truck on a freeway at about 2:30am. A Tesla involved in a fatal crash on a Southern California freeway in the United States last week was operating on Autopilot at the time, authorities said. A 35-year-old man was killed when his Tesla Model 3 struck an overturned semi-truck on a freeway at about 2:30am local time (09:30 GMT). “While the CHP does not normally comment on ongoing investigations, the Department recognizes the high level of interest centered around crashes involving Tesla vehicles,” the agency said in a statement. In a 2018 crash in Mountain View, California, an Apple engineer driving on Autopilot was killed when his Tesla struck a highway barrier.