NTSB Says Autopilot Feature “Not Effective”
DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report on the fatal crash involving a Tesla and a tractor trailer on U.S. 441 in Delray Beach. The crash was caught on camera.
From the report which you can read in its entirety below:
The car hit the left side of the semitrailer just aft of the trailer’s midpoint. The roof of the car was sheared off as the vehicle underrode the semitrailer and continued south. Postcrash, the car coasted to a stop in the median between the southbound and northbound lanes, about 1,680 feet from where it struck the semitrailer (figure 1). The 50-year-old male car driver died as a result of the crash. The 45-year-old male truck driver was uninjured.
