Breaking on NBC: Tesla on autopilot crashes into TX home, killing woman

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1. Tesla allegedly in driver-assist mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed: Investigators

Friday night



https://abcnews.com/US/tesla-allegedly-autopilot-mode-crashes-texas-house-woman/story?id=134062374


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A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was allegedly in driver-assist mode crashed into a Texas house Friday night, killing a woman who was inside the home, investigators said.

Michael Butler was traveling in his Tesla Model 3 around 8 p.m. local time in Katy, Texas, and was operating the vehicle "with an automated driving assistance system," the Harris County Sheriff's office said in a statement.


snip'Butler's Tesla entered through the brick residence, at a high rate of speed, and struck M. Avila who was inside the residence," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

Avila was airlifted to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead, the sheriff's office said."


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