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It was an unusual and disturbing sight in the Bay Area: A man was spotted cruising in his Tesla, his shoeless foot propped on the middle console as he reclined in the back seat — with no one behind the wheel.
Param Sharma, 25, posted
an Instagram video Tuesday from the car’s rear passenger seat, where he sat bumping along to music and showing off an article on the back-seat entertainment screen headlined, “Man seen riding in back seat of Tesla with no driver.”
“B— tell the chp I bought my license,” the video caption said.
One day before that post, Sharma was arrested. Calls had been pouring into the California Highway Patrol office from Bay Area drivers who had spotted the driverless car traveling east on I-80 across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toward Oakland. An Oakland CHP officer then tracked down the vehicle and signaled Sharma to pull over.