A tesla Model Y with its Autopilot system on crashed into a police car parked on the side of the road to investigate a traffic accident in Eaton County, Michigan, early Wednesday morning (17), injuring no one. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent officers to the local investigation, the second Tesla accident in a week that required NHTSA intervention.
Police said officers went to Interstate 96 early Wednesday morning to investigate a traffic accident, the police car parked on the highway, with emergency lights on. A spokesman for NHTSA said he noticed the accident involved a Tesla electric car and the agency has set up a special traffic incident unit to investigate. The NHTSA spokesman said that it was noted that the accident involved a Tesla electric car, and the bureau has set up a special traffic accident team to investigate.
Detroit last Thursday (11) also involved Tesla traffic accident, a Tesla electric car driving to an intersection when it crashed into a container truck, most of the body shoveled into the bottom of the container truck, the male driver of the Tesla and a female passenger was injured and sent to hospital, including the female passenger in critical condition. The preliminary investigation revealed that the vehicle in question was not on autopilot at the Time of the incident.
A Model S was plowed under a container truck in Detroit.
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