Five Years After First Tesla Tragedy Seemingly Preventable Crashes Still Occur
We look back on the long list of unusual Tesla crashes and wonder why Tesla’s vehicles still manage to hit things.
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It’s been five years this week since Joshua Brown was killed in his Tesla. The vehicle failed to stop before hitting a slow-moving semi-trailer that pulled across the Tesla’s path. Following the tragic loss of life, the media and the commenters under stories seemed to focus on which children’s program the occupant may or may not have been watching when he was killed. Shouldn’t we have been asking why the vehicle’s automatic emergency braking system didn’t stop the vehicle?