Policy · 3h ago
NTSB: Tesla Driver in Fatal Crash Had Foot on Accelerator, Not Autopilot
The NTSB found that a Tesla driver who blamed a crash on Autopilot had pressed the accelerator 100% before impact. The investigation supports Elon Musk's claim that the driver manually overrode the Full Self-Driving system. No evidence of system malfunction was found.
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The finding reinforces that driver misuse, not Autopilot failure, caused the crash, but it doesn't absolve Tesla from ensuring its systems prevent such overrides.
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